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Source: yahoo.com 8/19/25 On the surface, To Catch A Predator may seem like it was a moral net-positive. The Dateline series helped apprehend multiple criminals before they could target more children. That, at least on paper, sounds like a good thing. Predators, a new documentary delving into the repercussions of the popular show, however, argues that its legacy is a lot more complicated than that. “A cultural...
The CA Assembly Appropriations Committee made a surprising decision last week when they reversed their position on a bill (Senate Bill 680) that will require a new category of people to register. The category will include everyone convicted of Penal Code Section 261.5, unlawful intercourse, on or after January 1, 2026. This is the same committee that attempted to stop the Tiered Registry Law...
Source: post-journal.com 9/2/25 No one knows if an effort to update the way New York decides how likely a sex offender is to reoffend will move in the state Legislature this year after more than a decade of inaction. Part of the bill is intriguing. Sen. Liz Krueger, D-New York City, and Assemblywoman Pamela Hunter, D-Syracuse, say the form most commonly used to assess...
Source: kcentv.com 9/1/25 House Bill 1465, championed by survivor Cailey Rush, is now law. It requires those convicted of invasive visual recording to register as sex offenders. Watch the video
Source: cbs4indy.com 8/31/25 Marion Superior Judge James Osborn was clearly challenged when it came to hearing a case this month consisting of ten counts of child exploitation and child pornography against a former employee of the Marion County Forensic Services Agency. Watch the video Read the article
Source: journals.sagepub.com 8/25/25 Abstract The maintenance of a public sex offense registry has been codified as a non-punitive civil policy since the 2003 Supreme Court case of Smith v. Doe. But since then, sex offense registries have transformed from a centralized state repository of information to a sprawling digital archive of personal data about people required to register. We identify and report the current...
Source: northglenn-thorntonsentinel.com 8/28/25 A proposed ordinance that draws lines between sexually violent offenders and children may actually put kids in harm’s way, a Thornton resident said. The worry isn’t over the wording of the ordinance, which is like other city ordinances that mandate the distance convicted sex offenders must maintain in areas where children congregate. The problem is that the draft ordinance requires the...
Source: ntxe-news.com 8/29/25 Fannin County, Texas -- On August 27, 2025, Fannin County First Assistant Criminal District Attorney, Nathan Young, secured a 25-year prison sentence for the offense of Failure to Register as Sex Offender in the case of Carl Alton ____, Jr., 56, of Bonham. ... “In 2015 this defendant went to prison for six years for a failure to register as a...
Source: reason.com 8/27/25 From Baird v. Reyes, decided yesterday by Judge Andrea Wood (N.D. Ill.): Baird's three-page handwritten complaint … alleges that, on February 14, 2024, Reyes posted on his Facebook page an image of Baird with the text: "If anyone sees this fucking pedo with my kid and baby momma, let me know immediately." … Here, the Court finds that the facts surrounding his...
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Source: theconversation.com 8/26/25 Queensland is creating a public child sex offender register. Will it keep people safer? The Queensland government will this week table legislation creating Australia’s first public child sex offender register. The Queensland legislation, to be known as Daniel’s Law, was named in honour of Sunshine Coast teenager Daniel Morcombe, who was abducted and murdered by a sex offender more than two decades...
Source: dallasobserver.com 8/25/25 Beth Van Duyne's bill is seen as an infringement upon First Amendment rights. Some states are already making similar steps. Beth Van Duyne wants to use federal racketeering laws to seize the assets of people and groups that organize or fund protests that turn violent. But a bill the Republican representative for parts of Dallas, Irving and Richardson introduced in Congress to...
Source: newsbreak.com 8/25/25 The are a staggering number of people in prison in Washington State for sex crimes. Just over 3,300 inmates, or roughly 24% of the entire prison system population, were convicted of some type of sex crime. The federal prison system doesn’t break data down the same way, so the total number of inmates that committed sex crimes in the only federal prison Washington...
Source: ACSOL The CA Assembly Appropriations Committee has stopped CA Senate Bill (SB) 680 by placing that bill on the committee's suspense file during a hearing last week. As a result, it is unlikely that the legislature will continue to consider this bill. If SB 680 had become law, it would have created a new category of individuals required to register. That category would...
Source: heraldscotland.com 8/26/25 A convicted killer brutally slashed a gangland thug after discovering he was a sex offender. Robert Letham attacked Andrew ____ after sneaking up behind him as he read a newspaper while both were in HMP Perth. Letham struck after his apparent concerns about Andrew being housed in the main prison wing fell on deaf ears. The 40 year-old appeared at the High...
Source: washingtonpost.com 8/26/25 Sammy Chapman was 16 years old when a drug dealer sent him a private message on Snapchat to offer free drugs that turned out to be fentanyl, an addictive and powerful opioid. On Feb. 7, 2021, his younger brother entered Sammy’s room to find him dead on the floor of fentanyl poisoning. That tragedy spurred the brothers’ parents, Samuel Chapman and television host...
Source: rollingstone.com 8/25/25 The company provoked the ire of its community by banning Schlep, a popular creator who tracks suspected sex predators, even as it faces a flurry of lawsuits claiming it doesn’t protect kids After a popular YouTuber who entraps suspected sexual predators he contacts through Roblox was banned from the youth-targeted gaming platform this month, the company found itself defending its approach to moderation and user...
Source: katu.com 8/25/25 PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Courtney Gelbrich and Jane Mendoza have spent a lot of time at soccer fields, watching their daughters play competitive soccer. Little did they know, their common connection would lead them on an unpredictable journey into Oregon’s public sex offender database, in a fight to protect their children. It started with a phone call a couple of years ago....
Source: coloradopolitics.com 8/21/25 A Douglas County judge acted improperly by refusing to grant a defendant’s request to de-register as a sex offender a quarter-century after his offense because the man allegedly “smirked” at a hearing, Colorado’s second-highest court ruled on Thursday. David Arthur _____ pleaded guilty in 2001 to one felony and one misdemeanor count related to sexual assault on a child. After completing...
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Source: chronogram.com 8/22/25 During the public comment period near the end of a Woodstock town board meeting on July 8, resident Michael Veitch stood to speak. “One of the main failings of the Catholic Church and the Boy Scouts and others was the failure to disclose the presence of known pedophiles to the parents of the children who came in contact with them,” he...
Source: zanesvilletimesrecorder.com 8/21/25 ZANESVILLE – Inmates within the Georgia prison system organized a defrauding scheme in 2024 to defraud sex offenders and across the country, including two male victims in Ohio. Marquis Lamar Conner Sr., 43, of Decatur, Georgia, was the last of four defendants to go before the Muskingum County Court of Common Pleas for sentencing Aug. 18. Per request, Conner argued for his...