Attorneys file notice of supplemental authority in Florida internet identifier case.
The Florida Justice Institute and Weitzner & Jonas, attorneys for registrants on the Florida Sex Offender registry challenging a requirement that they register their “internet identifiers” and the websites they use them, regardless of whether they are on probation or not, have filed a “Notice of Supplemental Authority”, informing the Court of the recently decided US Supreme Court decision in Packingham vs. North Carolina, No. 15-1194, “in support of Plaintiffs’ pending Motion for Summary Judgement (DE 45) and Motion to Convert Preliminary Injunction to Permanent Injunction (DE 50).”
We still await the Court’s decision from the hearing on these two matters, held on April 10th.
We hope the Packingham decision will give the Court the support it needs to uphold the First Amendment rights of ALL CITIZENS!
Good job! – I hope they get rid of the whole thing! The new restrictions and the old.
Dear Fac,
What court was this filed under and/or will be argued upon? Is it Federal? 11th ?
I hope the attorneys argue Anonymous speech/Anonymity with the internet identifers. Which is covered in first amendment rights and has been ruled repeatedly as well as numerously cited in 1995 supreme Court ruling of McIntire Vs. Ohio elections commissions.
Federal District Court for the Northern District of Florida.
This is the case we’ve been working on for a year!
Thank you, and excellent! I hope you guys eloquently kick ass!
Good news, but many hurdles still to overcome. Just because the state can’t ban you from the interwebz, that does not mean that they can’t publish your name far and wide and effectively cause towers to ban you. . We still have the issue of Facebook banning registrants from there websites even though that appear to be in direct contravention of the very California law that their terms of service say is controlling. That is after a number of courts and now the SCOTUS has said that access to the internet AND social media is an essential part of the exercise of frees peach in the 21st Century. At what point will “private entities” that use the public infrastructure so to speak like heavily regulated communications systems, be held to the same standard as the government?
How do we get them to take stuff off Mugshots.com? Is there an official form you use to request? I’m in a unique situation where I was actually able to win, so they just drummed up a new charged from the first case all over again. In any event, I’d still like the first case which was dismissed taken down, and if possible the second case which is still ongoing removed as well. Can both of these be done? Where do I start? Thanks!
The new FL law (unrelated to this case) does not specify that for the removal of the mugshots the case must be dismissed etc. The outcome of the case only applies to sealing of records. The law goes into effect on July 1st and you can read more here https://floridaactioncommittee.org/new-law-forces-websites-pull-mug-shots-acquitted/
The law itself tells what you need to do to have mugshots removed.