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Are laws that require registration and publication of information about sexual offenders, shaming laws, like those in earlier days requiring the wearing a scarlet letter A for adultery? The more...

There used to be a home across the street from Richard and Maureen Kanka's house but now there is a small park with flowers, benches and a goldfish pond fed by a small waterfall. That home is more...

US District Judge Robert Pratt issued an order blocking enforcement of an Iowa law that prohibits sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of a school or day care center. The order came in a more...

The Supreme Court yesterday strongly backed so-called Megan's Laws, which provide the public with information about potential sexual predators, ruling in two cases that they do not violate the more...

Under Republican Rep. Matt Salmon's legislation, universities would be required to make public information about convicted sex offenders attending or working at most institutions of higher more...

The Supreme Court agreed today to decide whether laws that inform the public of the whereabouts of convicted sex offenders after the offenders' release from prison impose extra punishment in more...