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Doe v. Moore, et al., United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, June 6, 2005 . Excerpt:In...

A three-judge panel of the US Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has unanimously upheld two Florida laws that require sex offenders to register with the state and submit a DNA sample after release from prison. A group...

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced Friday, while acknowledging National Missing Children's Day , that a new federal website would provide state-by-state information on known sex offenders within two months. The website, with voluntary participation by...

Florida HB 1877, the Jessica Lunsford Act, signed into law by Florida Governor Jeb Bush on May 2, 2005 [mandating that all sex offenders who prey on children aged 12 or under will be sentenced to 25 years in prison,...

Florida Gov. Jeb Bush signed the Jessica Lunsford Act on Monday, a bill designed to impose tougher punishment on child sex abusers. The bill was drafted in March after the body of nine-year-old Jessica Lunsford...

One of France's biggest-ever criminal trials got under way Thursday as sixty-six people led by two former sex offenders stood accused of participating in a pedophilia ring in which children and babies were...

JURIST Contributing Editor William G. Ross of Cumberland Law School at Samford University says that although the US Supreme Court has not been a significant issue thusfar in the current Presidential campaign, the likelihood of Presidential appointments to the Court...

AB 488, State of California, signed into law September 24, 2004. Read the legislation here. Excerpt: On or before July 1, 2005, with respect to a person who has been convicted of the commission or the attempted commission of any...