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......

Sentencing Law & Policy points to a split-panel decision by the Sixth Circuit released today, where the court struck down an unusual sentencing enhancement imposed by the district court. You can read the decision here. From the opinion: Shafer contends......

Filed under: In the news Tammy Gibson will be spending three months behind bars for taking a baseball bat to a sex offender for talking to her then-10-year-old daughter last summer. Is this Puyallup, WA, mom remorseful or scared? "I'd do it again, if not better," she tells ABC News Seattle affiliate...

Two Legislative proposals by Harford County State Delegate Donna Stifler (R, 35A) today won the unanimous approval of the Maryland House of Delegates. Stifler’s bill, HB 96 requires sexual offenders to update their pictures on the state sex offender registry at least every six months. Previous...

Thanks to this post by Jonathan Turley, I just discovered this local article from Connecticut about a ground-breaking new type of federal sentence for downloading child porn. Here are the basics: Connecticut has set a new precedent for people who......

I received this afternoon yet another fascinating district court opinion concerning sentencing in a federal child porn downloading case. In US v. Beiermann, No. CR 07-4018-MWB (N.D. Iowa Feb. 24, 2009) (available for download below), the defendant faced a guideline......

  Facebook recently purged over 5500 registered sex offenders from their social networking service, and now a new bill in Texas is calling for sex offenders to also register their email addresses, cell phone numbers, and online screen names, in addition to the usual address and photo available ...

Regular readers may recall this post from December discussing a remarkable case from Buffalo in which federal prosecutors decided not to press charges against a quadriplegic who downloaded a lot of child porn. Now this local story from Alabama, headlined......

As detailed in posts linked below, I have blogged a lot about seemingly disparate prosecutorial charging and judicial sentencing decisions in how the federal criminal justice system is dealing with child porn downloading cases. Thanks to a helpful reader, I......

  MySpace revealed today that they removed 90,000 registered sex offenders from the site over the past two years. But it's not like that can stop them from using social networking sites -- and where to go next? How about the social networking site that has profiles of everyone and their mot...