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Trinidad AG: Child sex offenders will have passports marked

·February 6, 2019
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[stlucianewsonline.com - 2/6/19] The marking of convicted child sex offenders’ passports is one of the amendments in new sexual offences legislation, reported Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi. He was piloting the…

Trinidad and Tobago: Senator objects to public naming of sex convicts

·February 5, 2019
·8 Comments

[guardian.co.tt - 2/5/19] At least one Independent Senator is not in support of the names of sexual offenders going public. Sophia Chote, SC, said that this has the potential of…

Antigua & Barbuda To Implement Sex Offenders’ Registry

·February 4, 2019
·7 Comments

[stluciatimes.com - 2/2/19] Antigua Observer:- Residents will soon be alerted when a sex offender moves into their neighborhood. Attorney General and Public Safety Minister Steadroy “Cutie” Benjamin made that disclosure…

New Zealand: Public vilification a factor in Wellington academic sentencing

·January 27, 2019
·1 Comment

[stuff.co.nz - 1/28/19] Convicted sex offender ______ likely received a lesser sentence because of the potential "vilification" he would face, a leading criminal lawyer says. John Miller, who was a…

Australian girl, 12, ‘had no idea about pregnancy’ until childbirth at home

·January 27, 2019
·14 Comments

[tert.am - 1/26/19] A 12-year-old girl who gave birth at a home in Western Australia could be charged over the pregnancy - along with the baby's father. Youth Legal Service…

South Africa: Call for sex offenders’ list to be made public

·January 24, 2019
·8 Comments

[www.iol.co.za - 1/24/19] DURBAN - Child rights organisation Save the Children has launched an online petition calling on Police Minister Bheki Cele to make the National Registrar for Sex Offenders…

Kat’s Blog: Blimey, Who Does Australia’s Fact Checking?

·January 15, 2019
·5 Comments

Peter Dutton, Minister for Home Affairs in Australia wants to be the white knight riding in to save his constituents from “sex offenders” by proposing a National Public Registry. “Thwarting…

AUS: Lawyer fears sex offender list would lead to jury bias

·January 14, 2019
·2 Comments

[pressreader.com for Courier-Mail, 1/14/19] Veteran criminal lawyer Chris Nyst says a public register for child sex offenders could result in unfair convictions from biased jurors, if they were given easy…

AUS: Peter Dutton proposes public register of child sex offenders

·January 10, 2019
·5 Comments

Child sex offenders could have their names and photos uploaded to a public register in what is being described as the "toughest crackdown on paedophiles" in Australian history. Full Article…

Philippines: BI bars 145 convicted sex offenders to PH

·January 4, 2019
·7 Comments

The Bureau of Immigration barred 145 foreigners convicted of sex crimes in their home countries from January to November of the 2018. BI Port Operations Division Chief Grifton Medina said…

Israeli Sex Offenders Are No Longer Allowed to Change Name

·December 31, 2018
·8 Comments

[haaretz.com - 1/1/19] The Knesset on Monday passed into law a bill that prohibits people convicted of sex crimes from changing their name. “The law came about as a response…

Ireland: Gunman shoots at wrong house in Dublin ‘after thinking sex offender lived there’

·October 17, 2018
·4 Comments

[thejournal.ie - 10/14/18] AN INNOCENT FAMILY was lucky to escape injury after a number of shots were fired into their house in Dublin by a shooter who gardaí believe was…

India: Sex Offender’s Registry – A Misplaced Danger?

·September 27, 2018
·0 Comments

On September 20, the government announced that in order to take a step forward towards ‘women safety’ in the country, it has launched the National Database on Sexual Offenders(NDSO). It…

India gets a sex offenders registry. What’s that?

·September 22, 2018
·5 Comments

[indiatoday.in - 9/13/21] India's new National Database on Sexual Offenders (NDSO), a resource only law enforcement authorities can access, has 4.4 lakh entries. Who's in it? The government said Thursday,…

India Likely to Launch Sex Offender Data Base Next Month

·September 2, 2018
·1 Comment

[sputniknews.com - 8/31/18] The registry is aimed at helping law enforcement agencies to identify repeat offenders while making people aware of those involved in crimes that are sexual in nature,…

Bermuda: Do not make sex offender registry public

·August 23, 2018
·1 Comment

[royalgazette.com - 8/23/18] Government expert: Seb Henagulph, a consultant at the Mid-Atlantic Wellness Institute and Westgate Correctional Facility A forensic psychiatrist said there was no clear evidence to show that…

England: York trainspotter wrongly branded sex offender on Facebook

·August 12, 2018
·5 Comments

[bbc.com - 8/10/18] A woman who branded a trainspotter as a sex offender in a Facebook post is being investigated by police. The man, who has learning disabilities, was seen…

Australia: _____loses bid to halt deportation over criminal convictions

·August 10, 2018
·6 Comments

[smh.com.au - 8/7/18] A middle-aged man who has lived in Australia for 50 years has lost a court bid to halt his deportation after his visa was cancelled on character…

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