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North Carolina Supreme Court Upholds Social Media Ban for Registered Sex Offenders

Loaded on Dec. 14, 2017 by Matthew Clarke

Filed under: Sex Offender Registration, First Amendment. Location: North Carolina.

by Matt Clarke

In an opinion handed down on November 6, 2015, the Supreme Court of North Carolina upheld a state law banning registered sex offenders from accessing commercial social media websites on the Internet.

Lester Gerard Packingham, a registered sex offender (RSO), was convicted of accessing …

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