The fight over what to do with North Carolina’s sex offenders could be headed to federal court after a lawsuit was filed to reduce the restrictions placed on them. A North Carolina nonprofit is part of the team that filed the lawsuit. “There’s a place for a kind of register.
Small Texas towns struggled with sex offender laws RHOME, Texas — At least 23 Texas towns have now repealed local sex offender ordinances after the threat of legal action forced many to strip their laws, or end up in court. Earlier this year, the small Wise County town of Rhome repealed its ordinance. Mayor Michelle Pittman says as a “general law” community of less than 5,000 people, they were …