SD: Sex offender restriction bill dies in a House panel

Source: keloland.com 2/11/26 SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A bill Republican Rep. Aaron Aylward said was designed to protect children from sex offenders in South Dakota was too broad, several members of the House Judiciary Committee said Wednesday. Aylward’s bill House Bill 1167A was sent to its death on a 41st Day motion. His original bill was amended by removing the word “loitering,” which meant that any sex offender who entered a safety zone would be in violation. Those who voted against the bill said it went too far. “I can’t support this today,” committee member…

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UK: Registrants may face prison over pregnancy

Source: theboltonnews.co.uk Sex offenders may face being sent back to prison if they don’t inform police of their own or their partner’s pregnancy following a review into the death of aristocrat Constance Marten’s baby daughter. Safeguarding experts are calling on the Government to tighten notification requirements for registered sex offenders, as part of a national review into baby Victoria’s death. Marten and her convicted rapist partner Mark Gordon were jailed last year for killing their newborn baby while on the run. In 1989, British national Gordon was jailed in the US…

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