megan's law

Talal Aridi is classified as a Tier 2, moderate risk sex offender in connection with a July 2018 incident to which he pleaded guilty.

The law was named for Megan Kanka who was raped and murdered by a neighbor who had prior sex offenses.

People wrongfully convicted of crimes could be compensated even if they pleaded guilty, under a bill that also covers people wrongfully on Megan's Law lists.

On May 17th, 1996, President Bill Clinton signed Megan’s Law, which required community notification when a sex offender moved into to a neighborhood.

Dead kids usually make for emotional, broad brush laws that do more harm than good.

The 1994 murder of a 7-year-old New Jersey girl by a repeat sex offender that prompted Megan’s Law has now gone international.

According to police, Miguel Flores, a registered sex offender, was allegedly seen standing near a tree masturbating in an Allentown park.

Authorities say Milne hit a girl over the head with a piece of lumber, dragged her through the woods and tossed her into a stream, where she drowned.

A proposed ban on sex offenders' use of social media was scaled back, and legislators are being urged to take a broader look at New Jersey's sex offender laws.

Sex offenders in New Jersey are allowed to work with children as long as they're part of a church group, an appellate judge decided this week.