[unionleader.com] CONCORD — In the wake of a report in the New Hampshire Sunday News about a website where nude selfies of young women are traded like baseball cards, the legislature is looking at tougher penalties to discourage such behavior. A House committee on Wednesday debated a bill that would add people convicted of revenge porn, or any nonconsensual dissemination of private sexual images, to the sex offender registry. Rep. Timothy Lang, R-Sanbornton, speaking in support of the bill, said the women whose nude or semi-nude pictures are disseminated online…
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NH: State senators to kill audit of sex offender treatment program
A State Senate committee voted last week to kill a vital bill calling for an in-depth performance audit of the sex offender treatment program in the men’s prisons. The issue in House Bill 1113 matters to every citizen. The sex offender treatment program has been understaffed for years. It still is. The full Senate votes March 31 on the bill, so readers should act fast. Full Article
Read MoreNH: Sex registry questioned after prep school grad’s conviction
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – A graduate of an elite prep school who was convicted of having sexual contact with a 15-year-old classmate as part of a game of sexual conquest will be required to register as a sex offender for life, a punishment his lawyer likens to being branded and legal experts and reform advocates say exceeds the crime. Full Article
Read MoreNH: Lawmakers debate lifting sex offender residency restrictions
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire’s legislature is once again debating measures that would ban municipalities from restricting where sex offenders can live, even as some other states are making such restrictions tougher. The legislature’s Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee is expected to send the proposals to the full House this week. The House last year supported the ban on residency restrictions by a vote of 231-97, but the Senate killed the bill by consigning it to an interim study. Full Article
Read MoreNH: Supreme Court Rules That Retroactive, Lifetime Registration Requirement Is Unconstitutional As Applied To ACLU Client
CONCORD – In a victory for fundamental fairness, the New Hampshire Supreme Court held today that New Hampshire’s law requiring the registration of certain criminal offenders is unconstitutional as applied to an ACLU client because the law retroactively imposes lifetime restrictions on individuals who were convicted before these lifetime restrictions were enacted. Full Article Also see: N.H. Supreme Court: Disabled sex offender eligible to get off sex offender registry
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