Source: dallasobserver.com 8/25/25 Beth Van Duyne’s bill is seen as an infringement upon First Amendment rights. Some states are already making similar steps. Beth Van Duyne wants to use federal racketeering laws to seize the assets of people and groups that organize or fund protests that turn violent. But a bill the Republican representative for parts of Dallas, Irving and Richardson introduced in Congress to make that possible could infringe on the right of free speech. It is also unlikely to become law and, even if enacted, won’t deter local activists.…
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What Happens After A Child Pornography Conviction In Federal Court?
Source: newsbreak.com 8/25/25 The are a staggering number of people in prison in Washington State for sex crimes. Just over 3,300 inmates, or roughly 24% of the entire prison system population, were convicted of some type of sex crime. The federal prison system doesn’t break data down the same way, so the total number of inmates that committed sex crimes in the only federal prison Washington State is unknown. That said, we do know of one person heading to federal prison for a disgusting crime that falls under that category. Pete Serrano,…
Read MoreCA News Alert: Senate Bill 680 Stopped by Appropriations Committee
Source: ACSOL The CA Assembly Appropriations Committee has stopped CA Senate Bill (SB) 680 by placing that bill on the committee’s suspense file during a hearing last week. As a result, it is unlikely that the legislature will continue to consider this bill. If SB 680 had become law, it would have created a new category of individuals required to register. That category would have included everyone convicted of unlawful intercourse (PC 261.5), also known as statutory rape, because the victim was a minor and could not lawfully consent. If…
Read MoreScotland: Killer attacked fellow inmate ‘after discovering sex offence’
Source: heraldscotland.com 8/26/25 A convicted killer brutally slashed a gangland thug after discovering he was a sex offender. Robert Letham attacked Andrew ____ after sneaking up behind him as he read a newspaper while both were in HMP Perth. Letham struck after his apparent concerns about Andrew being housed in the main prison wing fell on deaf ears. The 40 year-old appeared at the High Court in Glasgow where he pled guilty to assaulting Andrew to his severe injury and permanent disfigurement. Letham was jailed for a minimum 22 years and…
Read More‘Sammy’s Law’ would help parents monitor kids online. It’s gaining steam.
Source: washingtonpost.com 8/26/25 Sammy Chapman was 16 years old when a drug dealer sent him a private message on Snapchat to offer free drugs that turned out to be fentanyl, an addictive and powerful opioid. On Feb. 7, 2021, his younger brother entered Sammy’s room to find him dead on the floor of fentanyl poisoning. That tragedy spurred the brothers’ parents, Samuel Chapman and television host and relationship therapist Laura Berman, to lobby for laws that might spare other youngsters from similar fates. Four years later, “Sammy’s Law” might be on the…
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