Thirty people personally attended the recent special Nebraska Judiciary Committee hearing on the public sex offense registry. The message is clear — the registry needs to be abolished, not merely reformed. Most sex crimes occur at home by someone the…
Author: Derek W. Logue
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Content: Why did NCMEC delete their “Map of Registered Sex Offenders in the United States”?
Back in 2011, I posted a musing about the growth of the registry at the time. This is what I wrote: “The NCMEC has reported that in June 2011, there was a total of 739,853 registered sex offenders in the…
“Weaponizing the Registry”: The many ways the registry is being used as a weapon
Gun-lovers like to say “guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” But guns are most often used as the weapon of choice when people kill people. Thus, the debate on gun control itself centers on individual rights versus the safety…