A philosophical examination of Oregon’s sex offender registration system. Legal analysis, practical advice, and more general musings about the history of social exclusion. Written for registrants, lawyers, scholars, and anyone interested in deeper discussions, not just standard legal summaries
You open your favorite weather app. Oh no — the National Weather Service just issued a Flash Flood Emergency for your neighborhood. A wall of water 10 to 15 feet deep is expected to surge through your neighborhood within the next 30 minutes. Do you grab your cats and run for higher ground? Most of… Read More
Research shows that a registrant deemed ‘high risk’ in 1995, now living offense-free for 30 years with a stable job and family, poses no greater threat to the public than someone with a decades old DUI.
Eusocial animals live in tightly organized societies, like bee hives, where the survival of the group always matters more than the life of any single member. Did you know that if a worker bee becomes unproductive due to injury, illness, or old age, healthy bees detect this pretty quickly and push her out of the… Read More
Less than a year ago, in a Walmart parking lot near Albany, New York, a man stepped out of his car into a nightmare. A group of men from the vigilante group Dads Against Predators ambushed him, accusing him of soliciting a minor online. “You thought you were meeting a kid, you sick freak!” one… Read More
Pennsylvania judge rules that SORNA is unconstitutional Read More