MO: Attorney General Requests New Hearing in MO Halloween Sign Challenge

Source: ACSOL The Missouri Attorney General filed a petition today with the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals asking for reconsideration of the Court’s decision issued on January 2.  That decision agreed with plaintiff that the Missouri state law at issue requiring all registrants to post a sign on their home on Halloween was unconstitutional.  In its petition, the Attorney General argues that the 8th Circuit Court of Appeal judges that ruled in favor of plaintiff misapplied controlling U.S. Supreme Court precedent as well as a decision by the 5th Circuit…

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Canada: Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has launched a national, publicly accessible High-Risk Child Sex Offender Database

Source: rcmp.ca 1/15/26 The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) launched the High Risk Child Sex Offender Database, a national publicly accessible tool. This is the first of its kind in Canada. The Database contains centralized information about people who have been found guilty of a sexual offence against children and who pose a high risk of committing crimes of a sexual nature. The Database contains information that has previously been made public by a police service or public authority. Only the offenders deemed as high risk of committing a crime…

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