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International Megan's Law

• WaPo: The yellow star, the scarlet letter, and ‘International Megan’s Law’

David Post has a new column in The Washington Post about the limitations and dangers of the brand-new (and little-known) International Megan’s Law making its way through Congress. The law would place a badge on all US passports of anyone previously convicted of a sex crime involving a minor. Post...
(Andrew Extein - CSJ, US, January 7, 2016)

• SO passports to be tagged like Jewish IDs under Hitler

When I was growing up, in a Jewish family in Brooklyn in the 1950s, Hitler and the Holocaust were common subjects of conversation in my household. Though at the time it all seemed like… (David Post - RSOL, US, January 7, 2016)

• The thin wedge to immobilize citizens

The International Megan's Law bill now before Congress/ a systematic effort to erode the foreign travel rights of American “registered sex offenders. (News article, David Kennerly)

See also: “HOMELAND SECURITY'S” ASSAULT ON TRAVEL and DEAD END: The International Megan's Law's Assault on Everyone's Freedom of Travel

• International Megan's Law

The International Megan's Law to Prevent Demand for Child Sex Trafficking, also known as the International Megan's Law to Prevent Child Exploitation and Other Sexual Crimes Through Advanced Notification of Traveling Sex Offenders, H.R. 515, is a bill that would require the notification of foreign governments when an American registered as a sex offender of children is going to be traveling to their country.