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AR: Arkansas law creates penalties for librarians distributing content deemed ‘harmful’ to minors
Source: arkansasadvocate.com 7/30/26 A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that Arkansas’ 2023 law restricting access to library materials can go into effect, three years after a judge blocked two sections of the law on First Amendment grounds. The three-judge panel from the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis ruled that the 18 plaintiffs had no standing to challenge one section of Act 372 and failed to prove that the other section was unconstitutionally vague. The two sections create criminal liability for librarians who distribute content that some consider “obscene” or “harmful to minors,”…
Read MoreAZ: High court says churches, not judges, define a ‘confession’ when it comes to reporting child abuse
Source: azmirror.com 7/30/26 Advocates warn the broad ruling lets predators use a ‘confessional loophole’ to escape justice The Arizona Supreme Court sided with religious leaders this week who argued the state’s clergy-penitent privilege law shielded them from reporting child sexual abuse to authorities. And in declaring that any intervention by the courts would violate the First Amendment, the justices made clear they don’t think any changes to Arizona law aimed at forcing clergy to report abuse would be constitutional. “We hold that the First Amendment generally prohibits factfinders from…
Read MoreIneffective, Costly, and Harmful: Debunking the Sex Offender Registry
Source: Mitchell Hamline School of Law 3/1/2025 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The modern sex offense registry was borne out of the belief that a public registry listing people who had been convicted of a sex offense would make communities safer. That premise was wrong. We now have thirty years of data concluding that public registries do not work as intended—in fact, there is evidence that public registries actually increase registrant recidivism. Furthermore, there is no definitive evidence that these laws deter non-registrants from sexually offending. At the same time, sex offense registration…
Read MoreA missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months for non-existent sex offense
Source: arstechnica.com 7/27/26 One missing underscore in a Skyrim-themed username put an innocent Nova Scotia man in prison for 18 months. A 2018 child-luring investigation, which began in Madison, Wisconsin, and eventually extended to Halifax, Canada, was based on a false premise. Police were looking for a man using the Kik messaging service under the name “fus__ro_dah” (two underscores after “fus”), but they accidentally requested records for the username “fus_ro_dah” (one underscore after “fus”). This one-character difference led them not to the perpetrator but to a Canadian man named Brandon…
Read MoreFederal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to Give Federal Inmates Tablets
Source: forbes.com 7/9/26 The Federal Bureau of Prisons announced a historic nationwide inmate tablet services contract, marking a significant technological investment. These secure tablets will provide educational programming, career training, secure communications, and reentry preparation to every federal inmate. Director William K. Marshall III stated the initiative will improve institutional safety, reduce administrative burdens, and expand rehabilitation opportunities. This reform addresses long-standing issues like staffing shortages and inconsistent program delivery, allowing education to continue even during lockdowns. Furthermore, the tablets aim to strengthen family connections, a key factor in successful…
Read MoreOK: Influencer Sara Gilson was fatally shot in a murder-suicide involving her “pedophile” estranged husband, Jeremiah “Shawn” Duffey
[ACSOL note: this shows the lengths to which someone could go who has been accused of a sex offense] Source: people.com 7/27/26 Influencer Sara Gilson was fatally shot in a murder-suicide involving her estranged husband, Jeremiah “Shawn” Duffey Weeks before her death, Gilson accused Duffey of being a pedophile and filed an emergency protective order against him after police found he “had inappropriately touched a juvenile female” player on the basketball team he coached In a statement issued to PEOPLE on July 25, the Owasso Police Department confirmed that his…
Read More20 Years of Persecution by the Adam Walsh Act
Source: floridaactioncommittee.org and bop.gov Today, July 27, marks the 20th anniversary of the enactment of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006. The law was passed with the stated goal of improving public safety and protecting children. Two decades later, however, its legacy has been one of ever-expanding registration requirements, lifetime public shaming, and collateral consequences that extend far beyond any criminal sentence. … Read the rest of FAC’s editorial Read the Federal Bureau of Prisons spin
Read MoreCO: Colorado DOC Allows Some Prisoners Convicted of Sex Crimes to be Released While Delaying Parole Consideration for Others
Source: prisonlegalnews.org 6/1/26 Stonewalling by the Colorado Department of Corrections (DOC) in providing treatment to people convicted of sexual offenses has allowed some of those people to be released without any treatment and at the same time delayed parole consideration for others. In 1998, Colorado lawmakers overhauled the system of sentencing and monitoring people convicted of sex offenses to include a lifetime supervision policy as a “comprehensive way to protect the public and stop further crimes.” The new system required those convicted of sex offenses to receive treatment while incarcerated…
Read MoreDozens of ICE and CBP Agents Have Abused Women and Children
Source: motherjones.com 7/24/26 This week, we published an investigation into David Brouillette, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who reportedly killed 25-year-old Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine earlier this month. That investigation revealed a long history of alleged violence against Brouillette’s ex-wives and children. “To be honest, I was surprised anyone would give that man a gun,” a former friend said of Brouillette. On July 22, the advocacy group Ohio Immigrant Alliance released a list of 59 active and former ICE and CBP agents charged with sexual and violent crimes between 2007…
Read MoreViolent extremist’s sentencing a call to protect kids online, says Catholic legal scholar
Source: osvnews.com 7/22/26 The recent sentencing of a convicted online child predator to a 40-year prison term and renewed safety warnings from federal officials mark a call for parents to double down on protecting their kids in the digital sphere, a Catholic legal scholar told OSV News. “This is yet another recognition of the growing threat” posed by “sadistic online exploitation,” said Mary Graw Leary, professor of law at The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law in Washington and director of that school’s program in modern prosecution. Leary — a…
Read MoreMI Supreme Court: SORA’s “Recapture” Provision Is Unconstitutional for Nonsexual Offenses
Source: Florida Action Committee 7/23/26 In a unanimous decision rendered yesterday, the Michigan Supreme Court struck down a key piece of the state’s Sex Offenders Registration Act — the so-called “recapture” provision, which forced people with old, pre-1995 sex offense convictions back onto the registry decades later if they were later convicted of any unrelated felony, sexual or not. James Ellis Jr. pleaded guilty to attempted rape in Illinois in 1983 and served his sentence — six months in jail, two years of probation. He was never required to register…
Read MoreReport exposes alarming number of sex offenders among Trump’s immigration agents
Source: msn.com 7/23/26 Washington DC – A recent report found that a disturbing number of federal agents carrying out President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda have dark pasts. A report published on Wednesday revealed that an alarming number of federal immigration agents are sex offenders. On Wednesday, the Ohio Immigrant Alliance published a study titled They Walk Among Us, which detailed how 59 current ICE and Border Patrol officers have been charged or convicted of sexual or violent offenses since 2006. The data revealed what the alliance calls “a disturbing pattern of sexual…
Read More‘Seinfeld’ Star Jason Alexander Accused of Inappropriate Behavior With Minor
Source: thedailybeast.com 7/21/26 Reality star Courtney Stodden posted a screengrab of an on-set moment with Jason Alexander when she was 17 years old. Seinfeld star Jason Alexander is facing accusations surrounding his behavior on the set of a Funny or Die sketch from 2012. Courtney Stodden, who catapulted to reality TV fame after marrying actor Doug Hutchison when she was just 16 and he was 51, posted a screengrab to Instagram calling out Alexander for “repeatedly rubbing his phone across my breasts” during the filming of a video that parodied…
Read MoreWV: License plate reader cameras found 135 registrants driving
Source: dominionpost.com 7/22/26 During a recent information session, representatives of the Monongalia County Sheriff’s Department said the county’s 20 Flock Safety license plate reader cameras captured some 572,370 unique license plate images over a 30-day period. … “If you’re a registered sex offender, you’re in NCIC. So every time a sex offender drives by these cameras, they go off,” Ralston said, explaining more hits are generated by sex offenders than anything else. By way of example, he showed all the NCIC hits that officers were alerted to between July 1…
Read MoreSC: South Carolina church leaders charged after allowing sex offender to work around children
[ACSOL is posting this as a hysteria example] Source: msn.com 7/21/26 The heads of a South Carolina church allowed a sex offender to work around kids – and were arrested after their furious congregation found out. Leaders at Pawleys Island Community Church said they were well aware of the criminal background of Warren Spence Perry, 70, when they allowed him to start volunteering. Perry had been convicted in 2023 for a sex crime involving a minor three years prior and was required to avoid being in proximity to children as…
Read MoreCanada: A CP ruling became leading precedent narrowing Canada’s sex offender registry
Source: rebelnews.com 7/20/26 Supreme Court says 2005 Ontario decision launched a line of cases exempting offenders from mandatory registration A 2005 ruling by Ontario Court of Justice Justice Bruce Duncan exempting a convicted child pornography offender from Canada’s National Sex Offender Registry, became the leading precedent for a series of decisions that narrowed Parliament’s sex offender registration law, according to the Supreme Court of Canada. In R. v. Have (2005 ONCJ 27), Justice Duncan declined to order a man convicted of two counts of possessing child pornography to register under the newly…
Read MoreFL: Andrew, Tristan Tate arrested in Miami after British prosecutors bring new charges
[ACSOL notes: Although we don’t normally post articles about arrests, it will be interesting to see if these two high profile individuals can escape from the requirement to register] Source: abcnews.com 7/18/26 British prosecutors said they will seek the brothers’ extradition to the U.K. Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan, the controversial social media influencers, were arrested Saturday evening in Miami, after British prosecutors brought new charges of rape and sex trafficking against them, according to U.S. and U.K. authorities. The U.S. Marshals Service confirmed to ABC News the…
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