"Our community will be safer while this offender spends the next two decades in prison," Orange County District Attorney ...

(CN) – The Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act cannot apply retroactively to offenders indicted before Aug. 1, 2008, the 9th Circuit ruled, finding that former U.S. Attorney General Alberto ...

Incidents that occurred at an Irvington church are now being investigated by the Mobile County Sheriff’s office. The MCSO is ...

YOUNGSTOWN A convicted sex offender arrested in Youngstown after illegally re-entering the United States after being deported ...

In 2006, the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act toughened the standards for who must register and for how long, and it upped the consequences of registration by requiring, for example ...

A convicted and unregistered sex offender has earned a federal conviction for not registering his move to Houston County in ...

It is beyond serious dispute that registration as a sex offender creates a presumption—indeed, a stigma—that Appellant is a dangerous adult who is likely to commit further sexual offenses.

Nessel said the sex offender registry act could be improved by limiting the registry to offenders who constitute a real public threat, her spokeswoman Kelly Rossman-McKinney said.

In our view, these provisions, read together, mean that the Act’s registration requirements do not apply to pre-Act offenders until the Attorney General specifies that they do apply. Justice Antonin ...