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MO: Bill clarifying sex offender registry law clears Missouri House, heads back to Senate
Source: newstribune.com 4/25/26 A bill aimed at clarifying Missouri’s sex offender registry law — including when people convicted... -
CA: Legislators use the lie of high recidivism to delay sex offenses from early parole
Source: calmatters.org 4/22/26 State legislators are taking aim at California’s parole system after two high profile... -
NY: Bill wants to add Tier I (low level) registrants to public sex offender registry
Source: observertoday.com 4/23/26 Assemblyman Andrew Molitor is among the co-sponsors of legislation that would require all...
So will this guy be banned from Halloween for punching a cop?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/california-man-sentenced-270-days-055110769.html
“The Truth Could Set Them Free” “Why did California destroy research into a group of people it says are dangerous enough to be locked up indefinitely?”
Steven Yoder wrote this terrific piece for Reason Magazine on “sex offender” civil commitment reoffense rates in California and how the State effectively buried the results.
Coalinga “hosprisoner” activist, Mike St. Martin, has been the tireless thorn in the side of the State of California and got this ball rolling. I put him in touch with the article’s author, Steven Yoder. My thanks to both of them.
There’s much more to come.
https://reason.com/2020/04/01/the-truth-could-set-them-free/
I just posted a comment on an article where the word “sex” held it up for moderation. Is it any wonder America has a “sex offender” witch hunt?
So what word should I use? I don’t like “$EX” because people tend to put too much emphasis and belief into thinking that money is a primary reason I oppose the Registries. I don’t think “S*X” is good because too many commenting systems treat * as a special character. Perhaps “S_X”?
So while surfing today I ran across mugshots.com and its right-wing bent. They resurfaced and claim not to charge for removal anymore. So where’s the profit now?
Judge spanks Mugshots.com hard for charging for photo removal
Lawsuit claims one arrestee was told it would cost $15k to have profile removed.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/09/mugshot-website-must-face-class-action-for-charging-to-remove-photos/
There is also this court of appeal opinion outlining the California sex crime history and what led to the registry.
https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/3d/46/592.html
I might have missed this, but good to see a large collective of groups with the same goal, including ACSOL, file a brief to assist in taking down crazy laws: https://narsol.org/2020/02/narsol-affiliates-join-in-amicus-brief/
This is interesting. Scroll down the “presentation” to the heading “Crimes against children and human trafficking”.
https://www.fbi.gov/news/testimony/fbi-oversight-020520