By Larry . . . NARSOL is excited to report on a win in the case of Montana v. Richard Hinman. We just learned of the case although it was decided on June 14, 2023. The question and issue before the court
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By Larry and Sandy . . . After all the hoopla over the past several days regarding the booking of former president Donald Trump, NARSOL agrees with a recent article published by Reason Magazine. Mugshots are not taken for the purpose of
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By Jacob Sullum . . . Sunday, March 5, [2023] marks[ed]the 20th anniversary of Smith v. Doe, a U.S. Supreme Court decision that approved retroactive application of Alaska’s sex offender registry, deeming it preventive rather than punitive. That ruling helped propagate several
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Originally published at CT Mirror; published here in full with permission. By Cindy Prizio . . . This year will mark the 25th anniversary of the public Sex Offender Registry (SOR) in Connecticut. The SOR – also called the sexual offense registry by
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By Trevor Baratko . . . A former Fauquier County Public Schools middle school teacher indicted for felony counts of carnal knowledge involving a minor has had her charges reduced to misdemeanors. She will not spend time behind bars and will not
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Advocate for incarcerated person accuses Iowa A.G. of wrongly committing persons to civil commitment
Published with permission by Newton Daily News, Newton, Iowa. By Christopher Braunschweig . . . Visitors at the Iowa Board of Corrections meeting Aug. 4 complained [that] the multidisciplinary team that determines if incarcerated individuals who finished treatment are still considered sexually violent
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By Levi Ismail . . . It’s costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars as more people file lawsuits claiming they shouldn’t be restricted by a registry that didn’t exist when they were convicted. Dozens of people have since been removed from the
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By Bobby Harrison . . . A three-judge panel of the United States 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down Mississippi’s lifetime ban on voting for people convicted of certain felonies, saying it is unconstitutional because it inflicts cruel and unusual punishment. In
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By Sandy . . . When the Adam Walsh Act became law in July of 2006, it authorized the U.S. Marshals to “. . . assist state, local, tribal and territorial authorities in the location and apprehension of non-compliant and fugitive sex offenders;
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Notice anything different? Check out our brand-new and improved website; we hope you like what you see! This has been a work in progress for some time now, and we are very excited to get it up and running. The tech committee
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