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Please join us for an evening of learning and discussion on one of the most controversial issues in America today… The Case for Dismantling the Sex Offender Registry: What the Research Shows with Dr. Emily Horowitz, author of Protecting Our Kids? How Sex Offender Laws are Failing Us Thursday, October 25 @ 7pm Cambridge Friends… Continue reading The Case for Dismantling the Sex Offender Registry

“Virtually everything about this spectacle except the tentative, then stoic intervention of Ford reeks of bad faith. Wisdom crouches in the corner, silent. Yet wisdom—have we forgot?—is the fundamental and ancient criterion for a judge. Kavanaugh has failed the test of wisdom not by what he is accused of doing when he was 17 and… Continue reading What Brett Kavanaugh Really Learned in High School

(Nejron/Dreamstime) “Thirty-three years ago, Fuster, along with his young wife, Ileana, was convicted of sexually abusing children at his suburban Florida home, where Ileana provided day care. He is the last person charged in the mass sex-abuse-in-day-care scares that made headlines from the 1980s to the mid ’90s to remain in prison. Part of a… Continue reading The Last Victim

the crime report “State laws that allow sexually violent predators to be locked up even after they have served their sentences are based on questionable assumptions that they continue to pose a danger to society, according to a study published in the American Criminal Law Review. “The study focused on California where, according to the… Continue reading Did California Authorities Suppress Research on Sexually Violent Predators?

Chris Christo/The Boston Herald via AP “The Boston Release Network, an organization that promotes public safety by helping returning citizens reintegrate into the community, notes that of the 59 individuals using their services, none have committed or even been arrested for a new sex offense. In fact, sex offenders have one of the lowest recidivism… Continue reading Changing sex offender law needs to be evidence-based

The Appellate Squawk blog, written by a New York attorney who specializes in criminal appeals, portrays the majority’s willingness to second-guess the jurors by crediting testimony they rejected as another example of the special rules that seem to apply in cases involving sex crimes. “Naturally the Court doesn’t admit that it moves the goalposts for… Continue reading Acquitted by a jury, but forced to register as a sex offender

The crucial question posed in the series “Global Child Rights and Wrongs” in the Sunday Guardian is how—and why—child protection laws should, over the past few decades, have led to the wrongful conviction of thousands of innocent parents and care givers world-wide, with devastating consequences for all concerned. The scale of these wrongful convictions would… Continue reading Theories and frameworks misdefining child abuse

The juggernaut of what has become a remorseless child abuse industry rolls on, with parents being framed by protection agencies and wrongfully convicted on the basis of speculation and conjecture. Read the article by Dr. James Le Fanu in the Sunday Guardian.

As Clarence Darrow famously said, “You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom. You can only be free if I am free.” Protecting the constitutional rights of everyone, even those convicted of sex offenses, is of the upmost importance for protecting our freedom. Therefore, both legislators — by… Continue reading The Sex Offender Registry: Vengeful, unconstitutional and due for full repeal

“Whether formulated for political organizing (the right’s ‘Save Our Children’), or inflated/concocted from real claims (the priest scandal), or entirely concocted (the day-care frenzy), or fueled by exaggerated statistics and unstable definitions (the college ‘hunting ground’), these panics have shared features. Sex figures as a preternatural danger, emotion swamps reason, monsters abound, and protection demands… Continue reading What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About #MeToo