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Incompetent Louisiana Sex Offender’s Challenge to Registration Requirements Proceeds by On September 16, 2024, the federal court for the Eastern District of Louisiana dismissed a procedural due process claim against the state Department of Public Safety and Corrections (DPSC) for repeatedly arresting a sex offender who failed to meet registration …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Minnesota’s $100 Million-Per-Year Civil Commitment Program Has No “Discernible Impact” on Sex Crimes by A report released on April 16, 2024, concluded that Minnesota’s Sex Offense Civil Commitment (SOCC) program, which is operated by the state Department of Human Services at a cost of over $100 million per year, has …
West Virginia Pretrial Detainee’s Lawsuit for Sexual Abuse Survives Dismissal Stage by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On June 9, 2023, the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia affirmed denial of defendant state prison officials’ motion to dismiss all but a negligent supervision and training claim that arose …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Convicted Sex Offender Now a Licensed Attorney in Washington State by A divided Washington Supreme Court beat back prejudice with a November 2022 decision admitting a convicted sex offender to the state bar. Zachary LeRoy Stevens was charged as a teenager with four counts of sexual exploitation of a minor …
Minnesota Supreme Court Denies Qualified Immunity for Delayed Transfer of Sex Offenders by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On February 1, 2023, the Minnesota Supreme Court held that civilly committed sex offenders have a clearly established right to transfer to Community Preparation Services (CPS) within a reasonable time. What is …
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
Third Circuit Unbothered by Pennsylvania’s Discrimination Against Sex Offenders in Denying Parole to Halfway Houses by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In a precedential ruling displaying galling cowardice, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ordered summary judgment on November 9, 2022, against a group of sex …
Fifth Circuit Finds No Liability for Dallas DA Who Improperly Relied on Polygraph to Imprison Sex Offender for 13 Years by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart In November 2022, Dallas resident Christopher Arnone was charged with sexually abusing his son. He struck a deal and entered a plea of nolo …
Families Protest Private Texas “Shadow Prisons” for Released Sex Offenders by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On April 9, 2022, family members and friends of men held at the Civil Commitment Facility (CCF) in Littlefield, Texas, protested the injustices which occur within the razor-wire fences of the former …
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
California Prison Officials Cleared After Prisoner Murders Two Sex Offenders by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In a letter to PLN on May 16, 2022, the California Office of the Inspector General (OIG) confirmed that no one was disciplined at the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) following …
Article • September 1, 2022 • from PLN September, 2022
New York Lifts Blanket Internet Ban on Sex Offenders by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins A settlement was finalized on January 19, 2022, in a lawsuit challenging a New York law barring those on the state sex offender registry from accessing the internet. The settlement allows some registered sex offenders …
Article • September 1, 2022 • from PLN September, 2022
Federal Court Says Illinois Statute Barring More Than One Sex Offender per Address Is Unconstitutional by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On July 11, 2022, the federal court for the Northern District of Illinois enjoined the state Department of Corrections (DOC) from keeping 25 sex offenders imprisoned who were eligible …
Ninth Circuit Won’t Spring Oregon Sex Offender Trapped in Self-Incrimination Box by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On September 8, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit declined to offer any relief to an Oregon sex offender who challenged his removal from parole-required sex offender treatment—which led …
Article • July 19, 2022
Ohio Supreme Court: Only Statute, Not Agency Policy, Creates Legal Duty Enforceable in Mandamus by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett On February 7, 2022, the Supreme Court of Ohio denied a writ of mandamus petition filed by a state prisoner challenging a decision by the state Department of Rehabilitation and …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Connecticut Supreme Court Rules That Prisoner Was Denied Due Process with Sex Offender Classification by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead On July 17, 2021, the Supreme Court of Connecticut held that when the state Department of Corrections (DOC) classified him as a sex offender despite not having a conviction on …
California Supreme Court: CDCR Cannot Exclude Nonviolent Sex Offenders From Proposition 57 Parole Consideration by On December 28, 2020, the Supreme Court of California held that California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) regulations excluding nonviolent sex offenders with from parole consideration under Proposition 57, the Public Safety and Rehabilitation …
Publication • 2021
Sex Offenders and the Free Exercise of Religion 42855 ndl_96-3 Sheet No. 59 Side A 01/21/2021 10:02:26 \\jciprod01\productn\N\NDL\96-3\NDL303.txt unknown Seq: 1 12-JAN-21 7:08 SEX OFFENDERS AND THE FREE EXERCISE OF RELIGION Christopher C. Lund* 1025 C M Y K Electronic copy available at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782001 01/21/2021 10:02:26 © 2021 Christopher C. …
Washington Supreme Court Holds Ongoing Contempt Not Required to Impose Sanctions for Violating Injunction Against Releasing Sex Offender Records by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On November 12, 2020, the Supreme Court of the State of Washington held that a trial court erred when it dismissed a prisoner’s contempt motion …
Article • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020
California Prison Guards Keep Jobs After Aiding Attacks on Sex Offenders by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins A series of assaults by a group of prisoners on convicted sex offenders was carried out with the consent and assistance of 10 officers at an unnamed California correctional facility. After an investigation, …
Publication • September 22, 2020
NARSOL Calls Out Patch: STOP the Red Dots! FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE . . . Contact: Sandy Rozek; 888.997.7765; ext 1 communications@narsol.org NARSOL Calls Out Patch: STOP the Red Dots! "Red-dotting" sex offender homes at Halloween feeds baseless hysteria Raleigh, North Carolina -- Every year as Halloween approaches, many Patch media …
Article • December 10, 2019 • from PLN December, 2019
BJS Report Finds Sex Offenders Among Former Prisoners Least Likely to Re-Offend by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer In May 2019 the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) issued a report, titled “Recidivism of Sex Offenders Released from State Prison: A 9-Year Follow-Up (2005-14),” that examined 67,966 former prisoners over a …
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