You may also register for the Community Notification system so that you can be notified by email when a registered sex offender moves into the specified radius of the address submitted. The Act applies to any person residing, working, or attending school within the state who has been convicted or received any probationary term for a sex crime in the state after November 1, , or has entered the state after November 1, , having previously been convicted or received any probationary term for a sex crime. State law designates certain sex offenders as habitual two or more sex crime convictions or aggravated convicted of the most serious kinds of sex offenses , and based on federal law all sex offenders are assigned to one of three levels.

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A federal court has just ruled that sex offenders have the constitutional right to use the internet. Some attorneys who represent sex offenders say not being able to use the internet is unfair, at a time when everything is online. Social media expert Patrick Allmond says the easiest way is the parental controls on your wireless router. If a registered sex offender creates a Facebook page, the company monitors that, and it will delete the page. Skip to content Live Now Live Now. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.
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Sex offenders in Oklahoma could face chemical castration under a new bill proposed by Republican state representative Rick West. If it passes, the legislation could require some convicted sex offenders to undergo the process before being released from prison, according to the Associated Press. If they're convicted of a second offense, it would become mandatory unless a court determines that chemical castration wouldn't be effective for a given individual. Eight states currently have legislature involving some sort of chemical castration, according to the Associated Press. In Texas repeat offenders are given the option to undergo the process voluntarily. Chemical castration is not surgical castration, which means the physical removal of the genitals. Chemical castration refers to ingesting any of a number of hormones, like leuprolide acetate and goserelin, that heavily stifle testosterone production and sex drive. Perhaps the most well-known case of chemical castration is that of renowned British computer scientist and codebreaker Alan Turing, who was sentenced to the process for his homosexuality in Some male chemical castration drugs—like the medroxyprogesterone acetate referenced in the Oklahoma bill —are synthetic versions of progesterone a female hormone like estrogen , which counteract production of "male" hormone in the blood with "female" hormone, according to Slate.
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