Georgia’s 2025–2026 legislative session saw one of the most significant proposed expansions of the state’s registry system in recent years through Senate Bill 468. While the bill ultimately failed to reach the House floor before adjournment, its rapid advancement through both Senate
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Restore Georgia unequivocally condemns domestic violence. Survivors deserve safety, accountability, and meaningful prevention strategies that reduce harm. However, we strongly oppose HB 1142 and HB 1207, which would create a public registry of “recidivist domestic violence offenders” in Georgia. Public registries are
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NARSOL has completed its 2025 conference, its 17th consecutive one. It was a wonderful conference. So many thanks go to our conference committees; our attendees, both in-person and livestream; our speakers and workshop presenters; the hotel and its staff; our law enforcement and
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Sandy Rozek, Communications Director <communications@narsol.org> 2nd Contact: John Dawe, Marketing Director <marketing@narsol.org> 3rd Contact: Brenda Jones, Executive Director <bjones@narsol.org> The National Association for Rational Sexual Offense Laws (NARSOL) condemns both the letter and the Change.org petition recently circulated
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The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether to disclose information about a neighbor on the sex-offender registry. By Kwame Anthony Appiah: I recently reneged on an offer to buy a house because I discovered that a registered sex offender lived across the street.
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When families face emergencies and are driven from their homes, they need access to emergency facilities like any other citizen. Families should be allowed to stay together during crises. However, a new bill proposed by Nancy Mace, a former South Carolina state
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By Stephen . . . The Florida 5th District Court of Appeals struck down the state driver’s licensedesignation of labeled Sexual Predator as compelled speech in a 2-1 decision, citing earlier wins in AL and LA over the same compelled speech issue.
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HuffPost obtained 37 arrest reports, the overwhelming majority of which show law enforcement officers arresting people for minor technical parole violations. By Jessica Schulberg… Every year on Halloween, law enforcement agencies throughout the country conduct thousands of random checks on people who are
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By Sandy . . . .Even before Hurricane Helene entered the Gulf of Mexico, plans for emergency sheltering for those fleeing flood areas were well underway, the plans of both those assuring that the shelters were up and running and those who
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By Jacob Sullum . . . The U.S. Supreme Court today declined to hear Louisiana’s appeal of a decision against its 2006 law requiring that people on the state’s sex offender registry carry IDs or driver’s licenses that say “SEX OFFENDER” in orange capital letters. A year ago,
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