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Each red dot is more than a hundred families on the registry

• WAR Family Foundation Declares it is Time to Pivot as a Matter of Fundamental Fairness

Our challenge to all who have ever made a mistake they regret deeply is to join us in pivoting from the annihilation of human beings to reasonable punishment followed by restoration. All children have the right to live without fear of harm. That includes children of those required to register.
(WAR Family Foundation, US, August 18, 2021)

• Former Staffers Condemn Cruel Treatment of Inmates at a Texan Prison for Sex Offenders

For many men serving time for committing sex offenses in Texas, their prison term never really ends—even if they complete their sentence. That's because they're required to enter a live-in mental health facility before returning to society.
(Lenore Skenazy, Reason, US, August 12, 2021)

• Former Gay Activists Alliance President David Thorstad Dies at 79

David Thorstad, who co-founded or ran some early LGBTQ groups following the Stonewall riots in 1969 that are seen as marking the start of the modern LGBTQ rights movement, died on August 1 from complications during heart surgery in a North Dakota hospital.
(Duncan Osborne, Gay City News, August 6, 2021)

• Family of Texas teacher, 39, who killed himself after being arrested for soliciting an undercover cop posing as a 14-year-old boy on Grindr say police drove him to suicide and INSIST he knew he was talking to a grown man

Brian Petersen, a 39-year-old junior high school teacher from Conroe, Texas, poisoned himself to death with carbon monoxide just days after being released from the Montgomery County jail in August 2019.
( Snejana Farberov, DailyMail, August 9, 2021)