https://narsol.org/av/interviews/Robin-Ozarks-interview2.mp3 The Ozarks Today, KRMS Radio in Osage Beach, MO. interviews NARSOL Vice Chair Robin Vander Wall.
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Tag: public sex offender registry
Proposed Kansas law conflates sexual offenses with murder
Topeka, Kansas . . . A Bill introduced in Topeka would change the way juvenile sex offenders are treated by the state. The bill would require juvenile offenders convicted of violent acts to register on the public registry. Representative John Whitmer supports the bill. He says offenders who are convicted of lesser crimes would not be subject to the new law.…
Read MoreRegistries cost millions; Provide no additional safety
By Don Thurber . . . Last month, a new chapter was written in one of America’s oldest real-life murder mysteries. The body of 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling was finally found, 27 years after his abduction. Jacob’s gun-point abduction shocked the nation and spawned a network of state sex-offender registries, South Carolina’s among them. But extensive research since then has raised…
Read MoreReintegration, not registration, key to safer communities
By Bob Munsey . . . No matter how a person may have corrected his or her actions and paid for failures, in the state of Florida, it’s “once a felon, always a felon.” What is such a policy as this supposed to solve? On a recent evening I listened in on a Reform Sex Offender Laws Inc. conference call…
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