Source: jamestownsun.com 1/23/25 The House voted 62-29 in favor of a bill that would allow registered sex offenders to ask the courts to remove them from the state registry earlier than what’s currently provided in law. BISMARCK — The North Dakota House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday, Jan. 23, that would allow low-risk sex offenders to ask the court to strike them from the state registry early. Introduced by Rep. Jason Dockter, R-Bismarck, House Bill 1231 would create a process in which sex offenders could apply for a petition that would…
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TX: Texas lawmaker introduces bill named after 11-year-old girl murdered in 2024
Source: kvue.com 1/23/25 [ACSOL is posting this showing how useless legislation like this could not have prevented her death] AUSTIN, Texas — A new bill would change the requirements for registering as a sex offender in Texas. House Bill 2000 was filed Wednesday by Republican Rep. Trent Ashby of Rusk County and named after 11-year-old Audrii Cunningham, who was brutally murdered in 2024. Currently, Texas law does not require someone convicted of enticing a child, or similar child grooming offenses, to register as a sex offender. It’s a loophole that…
Read MoreU.S. Sentencing Commission Seeks Comment on New Round of Proposed 2025 Amendments
Source: ussc.gov 1/1/2025 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the bipartisan United States Sentencing Commission voted unanimously to publish two sets of proposed amendments to the federal sentencing guidelines for the amendment cycle ending May 1, 2025 (watch the meeting). Today’s proposals, along with those issued last month, stem from public input the Commission has received in recent years, including more than 1,200 pages of comments received earlier this amendment cycle. Today’s proposals further respond to roundtables the Commission held last year on supervised release and drug sentencing. The first set of proposals issued today update…
Read MoreHomeowners, Beware: Warrantless Police Raids and Searches Could Soon Be on the Rise
Source: rutherford.org 1/24/25 WASHINGTON, DC —The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to protect homeowners from warrantless searches by police based merely on a suspicion that a person on probation or parole resides on the premises. In refusing to hear an appeal in Bailey v. Arkansas, the Supreme Court let stand a lower court ruling that could, as Rutherford Institute attorneys warned in their amicus brief, establish a slippery slope that allows police to carry out warrantless searches when police merely suspect but do not know or have probable cause to believe…
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