A bill to require ankle monitors for newly released sex offenders passed the Wisconsin legislature with overwhelming bi-partisan support, despite the high cost of monitoring these devices. The pretext for the bill was that homeless sex offenders were otherwise difficult to locate and monitor. A survey of Wisconsin’s homeless population revealed that 16% were sex […]
Bi-partisan Consensus: Sex Offenders Better Off Dead
A bill to impose the death penalty in child sex abuse cases passed the Alabama State Senate by a resounding bi-partisan vote of 33-1, and Gov. Kay Ivey has indicated she will sign it. Like a law passed in Florida in 2023, this directly seeks to overturn the Supreme Court’s 2008 prohibition of the death […]
Stay Away from the Water (and Camera) in Florida!
In a state where water is literally everywhere, Florida legislators have introduced bills to prohibit anyone with a sexual offense in their history from ever “being” within 200 feet of any body of water, presumably to prevent them from seeing a child or woman in a bathing suit. They would not be allowed to live […]
New Canadian Sex Offender Database Goes Live
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) recently launched the High Risk Child Sex Offender Database. The national publicly accessible tool is a product of the High Risk Child Sex Offender Database Act brought into force on December 31, 2024. The database lists those convicted of sexual offences against children that pose a high risk of […]
Alabama Sentences Man to 200 Years for Possession of Illegal Images
A 67-year old man who had previously been convicted of sexual contact with an underage boy was sentenced to 200 years when a collection of illegal images was found on his electronic devices. Such a lengthy sentence is unusual in cases of mere possession, with no evidence that the offender had produced or distributed the […]
Are Drones Being Used for Sexual Voyeurism?
There seems to be no end to politicians finding new sexual dangers from which to protect us. An Illinois legislator has introduced a first-of-its-kind bill to require that individuals on the sex offense registry must register any drones they may own with the State Police. The legislator justified the restriction out of concern that individuals […]
Victims of Disgraced “Operation Underground Railroad” Still Suffer
Despite the disgrace of Operation Underground Railroad (OUR) following revelations that its founder Tim Ballard, subject of a heroic 2023 biopic, was himself a serial sexual predator toward women who worked in the organization, many victims of its ethically questionable tactics continue to suffer imprisonment or sex offender registration. Ballard’s relentless self-promotion netted the organization […]
AI Wrongly Makes Sex Offender Accusations
“Technology is not neutral. We’re inside of what we make and it’s inside of us.” Prominent feminist scholar of science and technology studies, Donna Haraway, quipped this in a 1997 interview with Wired. That idea checks out when applied to this recent story out of Canada. The nutshell scoop is that Cape Breton fiddler Ashley […]
Elderly Man is Killed with Moose Antler Because of 40 Year Old Sex Offense, Killer Goes Free
A man living in remote Northern Minnesota used a moose antler to murder a 77-year old neighbor who had convicted of a sex offense over 40 years ago, but had been law-abiding ever since. The killer was found incompetent to stand trial after a psychologist testified that he suffered from a persecutory delusional disorder because […]
Doug Ford Goes After “Diddlers”
Ontario’s populist premier Doug Ford has announced that his government will introduce new restrictions on people convicted of sex offenses in response to the Supreme Court decision striking down mandatory minimum sentences for possession of child pornography. Ford said, “Throw them in jail. Throw away the key. They can rot in there… They’re a bunch […]