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Saying sex offenders are being forced to choose between prison and homelessness, a Los Angeles judge issued an opinion this week blocking enforcement of provisions a state law restricting how close those offenders can live from parks or schools.

A lack of screening of oil spill cleanup workers may have resulted in a convicted sex offender being charged with raping a co-worker. A CNN investigation into the incident reveals that basic background checks were not done on those hired to remove oil from the beaches in and around Pascagoula.

New York State attorney general Andrew Cuomo backed the e-STOP law under which sex offenders' social networking accounts were terminated. Facebook and MySpace has terminated the accounts of 3,533 convicted sex offenders in the state of New York after they submitted their account information to the state as required by 2008’s Electronic Security and ...

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Authorities on Friday released the name of a fourth victim found last week in or around the home of registered sex offender.

During the week before Halloween each year, Lt. Steve Rose of the Sandy Springs Police Department in Georgia knocks on the doors of every registered sex offender in his jurisdiction.