Federal Appeals Court Upholds Minnesota's Indefinite Detention of Sex Offenders
The program purports to treat people with statutorily defined mental illnesses but has not cured any.
The program purports to treat people with statutorily defined mental illnesses but has not cured any.
Rulings deem Indiana and North Carolina laws unconstitutionally vague and unjustifiably wide.
The Wisconsin case centered on whether paying to kiss teen's foot was a "commercial sex act."
A 26-year veteran of the department, William Whitley's record reveals 28 complaints against him, going back to 1991.
Officers frequently "use the power of their badge to prey on the vulnerable," finds AP analysis.
A man arrested for using Facebook argues that North Carolina's law violates the First Amendment.
British 23-year-old Nicholas Crawshaw is subject to a civil "Sex Risk Order" after cops weren't content to let his trials-by-jury stand.
Sex workers and their customers made up 72 percent of arrests in this "underage human trafficking" operation. Human traffickers? One percent.
People excited to see sexual-consent issues dominating cable news probably won't like where this is going.
Three U.S. police units facing new, multi-officer sexual-misconduct allegations
The plaintiffs argued that the newly mandated stigma is unconstitutional.
Idaho's law is similar to Michigan's, which a federal appeals court recently deemed punitive.
Oakland aims to shame "johns" with an anonymous online reporting system that triggers police warning letters.
'They said that all they were going to do was delete the photos from the phone, so I blindly signed a paper allowing them to access it.'
The 9th Circuit upholds retroactive application of Arizona's registration requirement for sex offenders.
Celeste Guap claims she was flown to Florida for drug treatment by California police. Now she's in jail on a $300,000 bond.
By its own logic, the government victimized children thousands of times.
A federal appeals court finds little evidence that the burdens imposed by sex offender registries are justified.
Concluding that retroactive application of the law is unconstitutional, the appeals court also questions its rationality.
The initiative was launched by Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart, one of America's leading crusaders for the eradication of prostitution.
We can't let one bad judgement tempt us signal feminism by sacrificing justice.
The Minnesota Court of Appeals says due process requires allowing a mistake-of-age defense.
Outrage over the handling of a Harris County rape case could lead to reform in the state's witness-detention processes.
If convicted, the boy-an 18-year-old homeless refugee from Ghana-faces a mandatory minimum of 10 years in federal prison, with life imprisonment possible.
The city has spent nearly $2 million on leave pay plus legal costs.
The state's new "revenge porn" measure is "so breathtakingly broad...that it criminalizes activity that involves neither revenge nor porn."
Alleged misconduct ranges from paying for sex to forcible rape, extorting sex through threats of arrest, and sex with underage girls.
Of course, the claim relies on refusing to draw distinctions between violence, coercion, and persuasion.
Why bother looking for actual sex-trafficking victims when cops can just pretend to be them and reap the same rewards?
The former speaker of the House can no longer be prosecuted for his real crimes.
People are bombarded with misleading statistics about rape, child abductions, and sex trafficking. Should we blame them for being afraid?
No evidence of a real sex-trafficking epidemic? No problem! The state has ways of creating sex traffickers...
Reports of negligent civilian authorities in military sexual-assault cases were overblown or unverifiable.
Even people who have committed no other crime can go to jail for trying to maintain their financial privacy.
When stopping sex discrimination requires more sex discrimination, how can anyone win?
Screw morality-the state is now intervening in American bedrooms under the mantle of stopping sex discrimination.
"I regret it because I didn't know it would lead to this."
He committed his offense when he was 11.
Momentum around the collection, testing, and tracking of DNA evidence from sexual assaults is growing.
A look at 12 new anti-rape measures gaining traction in the states.
The chief result of the stings-which involved Homeland Security and the FBI-was the arrest of 14 sex workers and 14 men seeking sex from undercover cops.
Public shaming in the Internet era can have lasting and wide-reaching effects.
Obviously, the vice cops are the clowns here. Unfortunately, their idea of entertainment is depriving people of their liberty and livelihoods.
The law of the last antecedent beats the law of lenity.