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Automated Sextortion Spyware Takes Webcam Pics of Victims Watching Porn
Source: wired.com 9/3/25 A new specimen of “infostealer” malware offers a disturbing feature: It monitors a target’s browser for NSFW content, then takes simultaneous screenshots and webcam photos of the victim. Sextortion-based hacking, which hijacks a victim's webcam or blackmails them with nudes they're tricked or coerced into sharing, has long represented one of the most disturbing forms of cybercrime. Now one specimen of widely...
Australia: Even in Death, the Punishment Continues: The Registry That Doesn’t Let Go
Source: www.canberratimes.com.au 9/4/25 A sexual assault victim has mounted a campaign to stop voluntary assisted dying in prison, feeling "robbed" her perpetrator died on his terms. The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was permitted to die voluntarily because of a terminal cancer diagnosis, becoming the first prisoner in NSW to access the system. He was seven years into a 30-year prison...
UK: A scheme helped prevent sex offenders committing more crimes – then it closed. Why?
Source: bbc.com 9/3/25 It took me some time to find the front door of the Safer Living Foundation. There was no nameplate, and the building was one of many anonymous red-brick Victorian terraced houses in Nottingham. It was January 2025, and I was wrapped up against the cold as I walked up and down the street trying to find the right address. There was...
Predators trailer explores To Catch A Predator’s complicated legacy
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...
Janice’s Journal: CA Assembly Appropriations Committee Strikes Again
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...
NY: Proceed Cautiously With Changes To Sex Offender Classification System
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...
TX: Law expanding sex offender registry goes into effect in Texas
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
IN: Judge finds AI child pornography defendant not guilty due to uncertain law
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
Digital punishment, lateral surveillance & the sex offense registry
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...
CO: Thornton sex offender map draws criticism from residents
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...
TX: Texas believes failure to register can equate to 25-year murder sentence
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...
Calling Man with Sex Offense Conviction for Having Sex (When 27) with 15-Year-Old-Girl “Pedo” Is Substantially True
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...
Australia: Queensland is creating a public child sex offender register. Will it keep people safer?
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...
Dallas Congresswoman Looks to Federally Criminalize Certain Protests
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...
What Happens After A Child Pornography Conviction In Federal Court?
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...
CA News Alert: Senate Bill 680 Stopped by Appropriations Committee
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...
Scotland: Killer attacked fellow inmate ‘after discovering sex offence’
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...
‘Sammy’s Law’ would help parents monitor kids online. It’s gaining steam.
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...
Roblox Banned a Creator for ‘Hunting’ Pedophiles — And Critics Are Pissed
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...
Oregon’s sex offender database limits information. Is it too much or not enough?
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....