As Doug Berman notes, the Federal Sentencing Reporter issue dedicated to sex offender issues is out. You can find the details here. I was honored to be one of the contributors and as I noted I have also made my......

After more than a decade of rumors and innuendo, "DNA tests have reportedly cleared the family of JonBenet Ramsey of involvement in the 6-year-old Colorado beauty queen's murder in 1996."  Boulder County District Attorney Mary Lacy said the tests point to an 'unexplained third party' ...

More media fallout regarding the sexually explicit files found on the personal server of the Chief Judge of the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals occurred today. First, Judge Kozinski (who is currently presiding over a high-profile obscenity trial) acknowledged posting images and videos including &q...

The Department of Justice has issued a proposal which would implement provisions of the Adam Walsh Act which would require that "producers of depictions of simulated sexually explicit conduct to maintain records documenting that performers in those depictions are at least 18 years of age."...

A three judge Nevada Supreme Court panel has ruled that a former sex offender who is serving time for a non-sexual offense does not need a psychological certification before getting parole.  Typically, before Nevada sex  offenders are released, a panel must certify they are not a serious d...

A Michigan sex offender, who walked away from prison work detail 38 years ago, was arrested this week in Wisconsin.  The man was sentenced in 1968 to a term of five to ten years after a conviction for taking indecent liberties with a minor. A Public Defender has a post discussing a proposed cha...

In the R. Kelly trial today, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that "[t]he woman who had been scheduled to testify this week that she had a sexual threesome with R. Kelly and an underage girl will not testify today," but would perhaps testify Monday. The Sun-Times maintains its own blog d...

School and law enforcement officials notified a Missouri man that he could not attend his son's eighth-grade graduation, because he was a convicted sex offender and wasn't allowed on school property.  The man faces up to four years in prison if he were to attend.  He served five years in p...

The San Jose Mercury News has an interesting story which discusses how Oakland police are now treating child prostitutes as victims, instead of criminals.  The article also mentions that the Oakland Police Department has been awarded a $300,000 federal grant through the Adam Walsh Act. The mone...

The Salt Lake Tribune is reporting that a confidential informant has told authorities that adult men in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints were having sex with underage brides inside the massive temple at the polygamous sect's Texas ranch.  Grits for Breakfast has an...