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Tag Archives: sex offenders

Jim Orey, 55, left next to crime scene tape, and John Blackman, 61, among a group of convicted sex offenders gathered at Carson city hall for a march on Saturday to demand equal rights to visit fast-food restaurants, parks, libraries and other public areas from which they are now banned. The protest is timed to coincide with the date of Martin Luther King Jr.'s voting-rights march to Selma, Ala., 50 years ago to emphasize that the issue is about a denial of constitutionally protected human rights. Carson imposes the state's harshest restrictions against registered sex offenders. Registered citizens, family members, and all who support them joined the march was organized by California RSOL - California Reform Sex Offender Laws. (Photo by Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

by Maurice Chammah

Making the Case Against Banishing Sex Offenders

Legislators won’t touch the subject, but courts are proving more sympathetic.

Wed, Oct 5, 2016 |

Legislators won’t touch the subject, but courts are proving more sympathetic to reforming laws that activists say sex amount to a "second sentence."...Read More

Conservative Think Tank Supports Less Sex Offender Disclosure

by Emily DePrang

Wed, Apr 3, 2013

Texas lawmakers have filed more than a dozen bills this session that augment or add restrictions to the behavior of registered sex offenders, of whom Texas now ...Read More

Screen grab of Joshua Gravens' Texas Department of Public Safety record.

by Emily DePrang

Josh Gravens, Subject of Observer Feature, Removed from Sex Offender Registry

Fri, Dec 7, 2012 |

The Texas Observer’s June cover story, “Life On the List,” looked at what happens when children are placed on Texas’ public sex offender registry. It ce...Read More

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