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MD: Maryland High court rules sex offender registration qualifies as ‘punishment’

·April 2, 2020
·28 Comments

[By Guy Hamilton-Smith, an ACSOL board member, a 2019 JustLeadershipUSA fellow, and a contributor to The Appeal and Slate. You can read more of his writing on his website] The Maryland Court of Appeals…

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MD: Maryland mom calls for more restrictions on lifetime sex offenders in Senate Bill 320

·February 12, 2020
·12 Comments

[wjla.com - 2/11/20] WASHINGTON (ABC7) — “HI, my name is Ann Kenny, I am a single mother of three daughters from St. Mary’s County,” says Annie Kenny in front of…

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MD: Baltimore County lawmaker proposes banning student sex offenders from school campuses

·February 10, 2020
·16 Comments

[baltimoresun.com - 2/10/20] A Baltimore County state senator is drafting a proposal to prohibit student sex offenders from school campuses statewide. Baltimore County state Sen. Kathy Klausmeier on Monday said…

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MD: The Absurdity Of Charging 10-Year-Olds As Sex Offenders

·November 25, 2019
·8 Comments

A ten-year boy has just been charged as a sex offender as a result of a schoolyard game of tag that got out of control. As reported by the local…

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Janice’s Journal: Child Pornography Laws Should Protect, Not Prosecute Children

·August 29, 2019
·27 Comments

The highest state court in Maryland ruled yesterday that a teenage girl could be prosecuted for distributing “child pornography” because she shared a one-minute video in which she was engaged…

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MD: A teenage girl texted her friends a graphic video of herself. A court said she’d shared child pornography

·May 23, 2019
·5 Comments

[washingtonpost.com - 5/23/19] The three teenagers regularly shared silly videos, trying to one-up each other and trusting the group text messages would remain private. But one especially sensitive text did…

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MD: Maryland House GOP to push for state income tax cut, violent offender registry

·January 26, 2019
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[baltimoresun.com - 1/25/19] Republican leaders in Maryland’s House of Delegates on Friday released their legislative priorities for 2019, including a state income tax cut, a registry for violent repeat offenders,…

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MD: Maryland joins sex-offender registry program

·September 2, 2018
·7 Comments

[washingtonpost.com - 8/26/18] HAGERSTOWN, Md. — Maryland is joining a sex-offender registry program that law enforcement officials say will make it more efficient to share records. The Herald-Mail reported Sunday…

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MD: State funding to go toward ensuring sex offender compliance

·August 1, 2018
·7 Comments

The Frederick County Sheriff's Office will soon receive over $24,000 from the state to help enforce Maryland sex offender registry and compliance laws. The Governor’s Office of Crime Control and…

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MD: Theater cancels ‘A Christmas Carol’ after revelation that Scrooge actor is convicted sex offender

·December 9, 2017
·25 Comments

Faced with the revelation that their lead actor was a convicted sex offender and fearing the possibility of protests, the Fells Point Corner Theatre and the Collaborative Theatre Company have…

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MD: Protest on sex offender’s involvement in Havre de Grace Seafood Festival stops council vote

·October 6, 2015
·2 Comments

The fate of next year's Havre de Grace Seafood Festival is up in the air after residents complained to the City Council Monday about ____ and ____ ____'s involvement with…

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MD: Retroactive registration of juvenile sex offenders OK’d

·October 4, 2015
·7 Comments

A juvenile court did not violate a convicted teenager’s constitutional rights by requiring him to register as a sex offender, though he committed the sexual assault before the registry’s enactment,…

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MD: Boy Faces Assault Charges For Kiss Made On A Dare

·September 15, 2015
·2 Comments

PIKESVILLE, Md. (WBFF) -- Baltimore County Police and Baltimore County school officials responded to a report of assault involving two eighth-grade students at Pikesville Middle School on Wednesday. School officials…

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MD: Study of Balto. Co. – Fewer sex offenses reported in neighborhoods with more registered sex offenders

·September 7, 2015
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Amid a growing national debate over sex offender registries, researchers who studied years of crime data from Baltimore County have released a new finding: Neighborhoods with more registered sex offenders…

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MD: In Havre de Grace, festival sees protest against former councilman convicted of sex offense

·August 11, 2015
·4 Comments

As families browsed the selection of seafood and frozen treats at the Havre de Grace Seafood Festival on Friday, protesters circulated fliers cautioning attendees about one of the event's vendors.…

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MD: Lawsuit – Sex offender requirements applied retroactively

·May 20, 2015
·9 Comments

BALTIMORE — A class-action lawsuit claims the rights of at least 800 people listed on the Maryland Sex Offender Registry have been violated. The lawsuit, filed Friday in Baltimore City…

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MD: Court ruling upends Maryland’s sex offender registry

·November 2, 2014
·2 Comments

___ is among 1,155 sex offenders who have been removed from the registry since February. ... Most have been stripped out because of a decision by Maryland's highest court. That…

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MD: ‘Vigilante justice’ leads to prison time in fatal beating of sex offender

·October 31, 2014
·1 Comment

A 20-year-old Reservoir Hill woman was sentenced Thursday to six years in prison for what prosecutors called an act of vigilante justice when she led a group beating of a…