[InjusticeToday.com] On October 30th, the State Department announced that passports of people who are required to register as sex offenders because of an offense involving a minor will be marked with a “unique identifier” that will read: The bearer was convicted of a sex offense against a minor, and is a covered sex offender pursuant to 22 United States Code Section 212b(c)(l). The law which occasions this requirement, International Megan’s Law (IML), was enacted in 2016 under President Obama. In addition to the identifier requirement, IML allows for existing passports…
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WI: Court forces cities to revise sex offender rules
[Wisconsin Journal Sentinel] In the interests of added protection, communities created restrictions on where convicted child sex offenders can live upon release, but something was left out of the political mix. In short, nothing in those ordinances addressed how the rights of sex offenders might be left unprotected under the U.S. Constitution, and as a result, those local restrictions have started to fray at the edges due to a 2017 federal court decision Following a successful lawsuit filed against Pleasant Prairie, which had required a 3,000-foot safety zone around places…
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