Source: dispatch.com 11/5/25 Registered sex offenders in Ohio couldn’t operate a little library or request video from public swimming pools under a new bill co-sponsored by Coshocton’s state representative. House Bill 514, introduced by Reps. Mark Hiner, R-Howard, and Sean Brennan, D-Parma, would ban anyone convicted of sexual offenses or crimes against children from keeping a library box on their property. Programs such as Little Free Library help people buy or build library boxes that promote book exchanges in a community or neighborhood. … Hiner got the idea from Mount Vernon, which operates…
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TX: Fort Worth has few restrictions on where sex offenders can live. Will that change?
Source: star-telegram.com 11/5/25 Registered sex offenders in Fort Worth can, mostly, live where they want to — but that may change soon. The Fort Worth Public Safety Committee met on Nov. 4 to continue discussing potential restrictions on where registered sex offenders can live within city limits. The committee originally took up the issue at their October meeting after city council member Charles Lauersdorf said that he was motivated to explore new restrictions when he learned that a registered sex offender who had been convicted of aggravated assault on a…
Read MoreAgainst moral panic: Or, dolls aren’t real kids
Source: wilsontimes.com 11/4/25 On Monday, The Washington Post reports, “fast-fashion” retailer Shein banned sales of sex dolls on its site after a government regulatory agency threatened to bar the company from operating in France and referred it to prosecutors. Some of the dolls sold on Shein’s online platform were, it seems, too “childlike” in appearance. I consider it lazy to assert, as many opinionators do, that “no one” supports, or “everyone” wants, this or that particular thing, but if there’s a subject that commands anything close to societal unanimity, it’s…
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