Three City Council members proposed broadcasting information on the city's cable channel about the more than 4,000 registered sex offenders living in Los Angeles. The proposal, to be introduced more...
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Four years ago Congress began requiring states to maintain sex offender registries to track the whereabouts of criminals once they leave prison. States around the country are now going a step more...
The Illinois Supreme Court ruled sex offenders as young as 12 can be ordered to register as "sexual predators" for the rest of their lives. The justices upheld a law that requires juvenile more...
According to the Associated Press, any vigilantism against registered sex offenders intended to harm or scare them could jeopardize offender registration laws. Bob Schilling, a police detective more...
According to the Associated Press, in a move that reverses a decision made by the Legislature last year, a conviction of kidnapping or falsely imprisoning a youngster would automatically qualify more...
After a court ruling this week struck down part of the law regulating sex convicts, the FBI may have to step in and run Massachusetts' beleaguered sex offender registry and notification system. more...
The Reno, Nevada Police Department is the second law enforcement agency in the country to use "Megan's Mapper," a software program that uses geographic mapping to notify residents when a sex more...
New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman introduced legislation that would amend the State Constitution to allow officials to post convicted sex offenders' names on an Internet site. According more...
A federal judge has ruled that New Jersey will be allowed to list only a sex offender's name, without any address or hometown, when it begins posting Megan's Law information on the Internet in more...
Maureen Kanka, the co-founder of the Megan Nicole Kanka Foundation of Trenton, New Jersey, tells about her neighborhood being like any other neighborhood until one day her 7 year old daughter, more...