CARSON CITY — A judge Thursday will consider an emergency motion filed by lawyers for 17 unnamed plaintiffs seeking an 11th-hour stay of a Nevada law implementing new sex offender registration requirements. Clark County District Judge Douglas Smith scheduled the…
Category: Civil Rights
State can’t deny bail to accused sex offenders
State laws denying bail to accused sex offenders are unconstitutional, the Arizona Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. In a split opinion, the majority said it may very well be appropriate to keep individuals who are charged with having sexual contact…
Challenge to SORNA retroactivity reaches PA Supreme Court
In the last few years, Pennsylvania’s courts have taken an active role in defining the propriety and scope of the state’s sex offender registration program. Following on the heels of a December 2014 decision striking down sex offender registration for…
False Perceptions Lead to Housing Restrictions
From: Housing Restrictions on Sex Offenders Spread Even as Evidence Shows They Don’t Work Psychologists who have treated sex offenders, such as Gerry Blasingame, chair of the California Coalition on Sexual Offending, say the impetus behind the laws — the…
Smart Talk: Sex offender registries work?
When juveniles are found guilty of sexual misconduct
I Married a Sex Offender
Below is excerpt from original article that you can read here: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2016/02/18/i-married-a-sex-offender?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter&utm_source=opening-statement&utm_term=newsletter-20160219-388#.a8mkGIRAH For the first three years he was home, his picture wasn’t even on the [sex-offender registry] website. You would actually have to go into the police department to…
Mesa neighborhood holds protest against sex offender halfway house
MESA, AZ – A Mesa neighborhood gathered together Wednesday night to protest a halfway house for sex offenders near Loop 202 and Power Road. The Schmidt couple, who owns the home, was told to cease and desist all operations in…