Source: reason.com 8/20/26 A Justice Department report documents California’s failure to protect incarcerated women from sexual assault going back decades. The Department of Justice (DOJ) put California on notice last week that the state’s decades-long failure to protect incarcerated women in two state prisons from rampant sexual abuse likely violates the Constitution. An August 13 report by the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division concluded that there was an “unbroken pattern of often violent, sexual misconduct by staff against prisoners from 2000 through 2024, continuing to the present” at the Central California Women’s…
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NC: North Carolina Supreme Court Rules Procedural Mistake Can Keep You On The Registry
Source: floridaactioncommittee.org 8/25/26 The North Carolina Supreme Court has issued a disappointing decision earlier this month concerning the ability of people on the sex offender registry to seek removal. In State v. Lingerfelt (August 14, 2026), the Court held that a person who fails to appeal an earlier determination of their federal SORNA tier cannot later challenge that determination in a subsequent petition for removal. The petitioner pleaded guilty in 2003 to two counts of sexual activity by a substitute parent and was required to register. North Carolina law permits…
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