SANTA ANA, Calif., Nov. 21 (UPI) -- A California appeals court says that a law prohibiting sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of a school amounts to additional punishment.
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- A federal judge in Missouri says a law limiting the activities of registered sex offenders on Halloween is too vague to be properly enforced.
ANNAPOLIS, Md., Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Sex offenders in Maryland will be required to post a pumpkin-shaped sign on their doors on Halloween, saying candy is not available there, officials said.
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- A civil rights group is suing the western Pennsylvania county that includes Pittsburgh, claiming a new law keeps sex offenders from living almost anywhere.
SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- A Utah state law requiring sex offenders to disclose their Internet screen names violates the constitutional rights of one man, a judge ruled.
LONDON, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- Before some British sex offenders are released next year, they will take lie detector tests to determine the risk, the government says.
MIAMI, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- A major law enforcement operation led by the U.S. marshals has resulted in the capture of 2,497 fugitives in Florida, officials said Thursday.
MIAMI, July 30 (UPI) -- A federal judge in Miami has struck down key parts of a controversial Florida law that contained a revised schedule for cleaning up the Everglades.
HARRISBURG, Pa., July 23 (UPI) -- Pennsylvania would track movements of sex offenders using global positioning system technology under a new proposal.
CARSON CITY, Nev., July 1 (UPI) -- A U.S. judge says he has blocked Nevada's new sex offender law from going into effect until constitutional challenges are resolved.
BATON ROUGE, La., June 26 (UPI) -- Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has signed into law a measure that would force convicted rapists and others to undergo chemical castration.
INDIANAPOLIS, June 25 (UPI) -- A U.S. district court judge ruled that an Indiana law allowing warrantless monitoring of former sex offenders' Internet activity was unconstitutionally broad.
LIVERPOOL, England, June 12 (UPI) -- Britain's Sex Offenders Register is failing to protect vulnerable children, a psychologist at the University of Liverpool says.
ATHENS, Ga., May 15 (UPI) -- A University of Georgia study says many female child molesters were themselves victims of sexual abuse as children.
LOS ANGELES, April 18 (UPI) -- California officials are checking child-care facilities and foster homes in Los Angeles County to make sure they aren't sheltering convicted sex offenders.
