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Source: lailluminator.com 8/14/25 Louisiana is suing Roblox, the popular online gaming site, claiming it has distributed child sexual abuse material and fails to protect or notify users of sexual predators. Attorney General Liz Murrill filed the lawsuit Thursday in Livingston Parish at the 21st Judicial District Court. The lawsuit alleges Roblox endangers Louisiana children as an unchecked forum for sexual predators to connect with children and...
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Source: churchleaders.com 8/15/25 Let’s talk about one of those Elephant in the Room subjects that no one wants to talk about. I’m referring to the issues of sex offenders and the local church. Fortunately in recent years we have begun to discuss it, but there’s a long way to go). Early in my career in the field of Criminal Justice I spent several years...
Source: reason.com 8/13/25 Advocacy groups say more than 100 cruise ship crew members have been deported in recent months, and they're not being shown the evidence against them or given any due process. When Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents marched the housekeeper down the gangplank of the Victory I cruise ship in the Port of Detroit on the morning of July 11, she didn't...
Source: ACSOL The CA Assembly Appropriations Committee will review Senate Bill 680 on August 20. The review of this bill will be part of a marathon session that includes consideration of more than 200 bills. No testimony will be heard during this session that begins at 9 a.m. in Room 1100 of the legislative office building (1021 O Street). If Senate Bill 680 is...
Source: kansascity.com 8/14/25 A man facing child porn charges was killed in an Arkansas jail, and now five inmates are accused of murder, police say. Terry Craig, 44, was booked into the Monroe County Detention Center after noon on Friday, Aug. 8, on charges of possession of child sexual abuse materials, and possession of a firearm by certain persons, Arkansas State Police said in...
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Source: krqe.com 8/14/25 [ACSOL Note: our policy is not to post articles about people accused of a crime, but given the facts of this situation we think we should post the article anyway.] Daniel Diaz-Gonzalez, 42, a civilian Lubbock Police Department employee, was arrested on Wednesday and accused of assaulting an elderly person, Chief Seth Herman said. Court documents obtained by EverythingLubbock.com revealed some additional details...
Source: pew.org 8/4/25 Overview Throughout the country, people rely on state and local courts to resolve a wide variety of issues, from traffic tickets and divorces to debt cases and shoplifting charges.1 These interactions can affect their lives, their communities, and their opinions of the legal system. To learn more about how people in the U.S. interact with and view courts, The Pew Charitable Trusts...
NARSOL has announced a new location and dates for its annual conference. That conference will be held in Atlanta from October 17 through October 19. Details regarding the conference, including how to sign up, can be found on the NARSOL website at http://www.narsol.org. The NARSOL conference was originally scheduled to be held in Michigan in June 2025. That conference was cancelled after the hotel...
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2025
Source: ussc.gov 8/11/25 WASHINGTON, D.C. - Judge Carlton W. Reeves, Chair of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, today announced the appointment of nine individuals to serve on the newly established Sentence Impact Advisory Group (SIAG). Advisory groups provide Commissioners with important perspectives that help them in policy making and ensure fairness in federal sentencing. The newly appointed SIAG members include those individuals who have been...
Source: reason.com 8/11/25 Can a hotel be guilty of sex trafficking just because it didn't surveil its customers enough? A hotel could be legally liable for sex trafficking because it failed to intervene against a guest who wore "sexually explicit clothing" and had condoms in her room, according to a recent ruling from Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk of the U.S. District Court for...
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2025
Source: catholicregister.org 8/10/25 EDITOR’S NOTE: Some of the names in this article have been changed to protect the identity of the individuals. Few crimes elicit society’s rancor and scorn like sex abuse. Whether it’s the vulnerability of the victims or the intimacy of the assault, sex crimes have a unique stigma that follows offenders into prison. This presents a challenge not just for society,...
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2025
Source: jamanetwork.com 6/3/25 Key Points: Question Are individual incarceration status and county incarceration rates associated with all-cause and overdose mortality in the US? Findings: In a nationally representative cohort study of approximately 3.26 million adults observed from 2008 through 2019, individuals incarcerated at the time of the survey experienced a 39% higher risk of all-cause mortality and more than 3 times the risk of overdose...
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2025
Source: 404media.co 4/5/25 The state of Florida is suing some of the biggest porn platforms on the internet, accusing them of not complying with the state’s law that requires adult sites to verify that visitors are over the age of 18. The lawsuit, brought by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, is against the companies that own popular porn platforms including XVideos, XNXX, Bang Bros...
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Source: rand.org 6/18/25 Paper overview: his report is one in a series of analyses on the effects of emerging technologies on U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) missions and capabilities. As part of this work, the research team was charged with developing a technology and risk assessment methodology for evaluating emerging technologies and understanding their implications in a homeland security context. The methodology and...
Source: doorcountypulse.com 8/7/25 Following an appeal from a convicted sex offender, the Village of Forestville is revising an ordinance related to the distance convicted sex offenders may reside from “where children are known to congregate.” The village’s ordinance, adopted in December 2007, prohibits a convicted sex offender from living within 2,500 feet of any school, licensed day care center, park, trail, playground, place of...
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Source: shreveportbossieradvocate.com 8/7/25 Sex offender's offer of lollipops to children at school bus stop leads to Louisiana new state law When law enforcement officers with the Bossier Sheriff's Office and the Shreveport District Office of Probation and Parole brought attention to a convicted sex offender's offer of candy to children at a school bus stop in Bossier Parish, it led to an addition to state...
Source: ussc.gov 8/6/25 WASHINGTON, D.C. ― Today, the U.S. Sentencing Commission has unanimously voted to adopt priorities for the 2025-2026 guideline amendment cycle. Each year, the Commission solicits comments from the public on how the agency can improve federal sentencing. Similar to years past, the Commission received insightful feedback on a range of issues from judges, members of Congress, executive branch officials, probation officers,...
Source: koco.com 8/5/25 Five registered sex offenders were arrested at Oklahoma City parks over the weekend, drawing attention to the difficulties faced by individuals with sex offenses in finding legal housing. Some have nowhere to legally live. In Oklahoma, registered sex offenders cannot loiter within 500 feet of schools, daycares or parks. Of the five men arrested at Scissortail Park and Myriad Botanical Gardens,...
Source: filtermag.org 8/5/25 Seven years in the making, a searchable database of California law enforcement misconduct and use-of-force reports is now available to the public. The free database contains records from close to 12,000 cases and 700 police departments, shining a light into the practices of what has long been among the least transparent states in the country when it comes to officer misconduct....
Source: heritage.org 8/4/25 With President Trump again in office and the Justice Department under new leadership, this is a good time to evaluate the vital task of providing restitution for victims of child pornography. This Legal Memorandum explains the unique nature of child pornography and how it impacts victims and highlights ways in which it has not been taken as seriously as it should...