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LA - Challenging the modern-day ?scarlet letter?

Original Article 03/07/2011 By Zoe Sullivan Forty percent of the people registered as sex offenders in Orleans Parish have not committed a violent crime or taken advantage of children, according to the Center for Consti­tutional Rights. This group of people has been required to register as sex offenders because of a law dating from 1805 that prohibits the solicitation of oral or anal sex. This is called the Crimes Against Nature (CAN) law, and advocates say that it brands those convicted with a modern-day scarlet letter, which renders it almost impossible for them to move out of sex work and into the mainstream. To fight this, Loyola University's Stuart H. Smith Law Clinic partnered with the Center for Constitutional Rights and Andrea Ritchie, filing a lawsuit to have the statute repealed...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on March 07, 2011 (boomark / email).