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…
Category: Editorials
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…
“Go and Sin No More… Or, if you’re a Registrant, Just Go!”
We talk a lot about the impact of laws on registered persons and their loved ones, but sometimes the negative impact of the public registry reaches us in places we least expect to find. Not even churches are immune to…