Immigration Crackdown: Orange County Sheriff's Department now has a program that allows its deputies "to perform certain immigration functions such as checking the legal status of everyone that comes through their jails," according to an article by Cindy Carcamo of the Orange County Register. Since the new program was implemented, 10% of those jailed were found to be potential illegal immigrants.

More on Roper v. Weaver: An article in the New York Times by Linda Greenhouse discusses the "murder for hire" case of a federal drug witness that CJLF has joined (see Kent Scheidegger's post from yesterday on the case).

Pornography restriction too much: U.S. federal court in New York found that the Child Online Protection Act violated the Constitution's "free speech protections" according to this report. The act was made to stop access to pornography sites for children.

Mississippi sex offender laws are tougher now that Haley Barbour signed a bill that qualifies Mississippi for federal funding under the Adam Walsh Act" according to this AP story. Tougher restrictions include shortening the time limit for registration as a sex offender from 10 days to 3 days and requiring a sex offender designation on Mississippi driver's licenses.