Author: FAC Contributor #10

Germany has recognized that there are numerous problems with their minimum sentence guidelines for some CP cases.  There are people who have received CP involuntarily such as through a WhatsApp parents’ group.  Teachers have discovered CP material on “students’ cell phones and forwarded it to alert parents.” Germany’s cabinet is also considering young offenders who “tend to act out of

Two Florida Action Committee members are planning to meet with an FDLE representative in June.  The Weekly Update that was recently emailed to members requested certain information be sent to us to present at our meeting with FDLE.  We are also addressing the need in this post to gather all available information that we can. One of the topics that

The NYCLU filed a class action lawsuit challenging New York Executive Law § 259-c (14) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleging the 1,000-foot geographic restriction violates the 14th Amendment. SOURCE

Reporting of in-state travel, by offenders only, has been enabled in the FDLE Cyber Communication System (CCS).  Thank you to our member who made us aware of the change.   “Online address reporting on this page may only be done in accordance with the decision by the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida in Case No.

First published at Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws (ACSOL)   “According to the court, one part of the challenged residency restrictions adversely could affect the ability of registrants to attend church, participate in political events, visit family, and access public libraries.  Another part of the challenged restrictions could prohibit registrants from spending the night in a hospital emergency room

The unthinkable could be soon happening in Louisiana:  Judges being allowed to sentence people who commit certain sex offenses to forced surgical castration.  This would also include women. Senate Bill 371 by Senator Regina Barrow was approved in the House of Representatives in a 74-24 vote.  It needs only the senators’ concurrence in the House floor amendments before it is

While a federal appeals court upheld Tennessee’s sex offense registry law, it acknowledged that restricting where people on the registry can live, work and travel is potentially unconstitutional.  The court said that the plaintiffs had not sued the right people, so the court cannot do anything about it. Additionally, the judges said that categorizing registrants as violent or non-violent sexual

Since our Call to Action went out on April 26, 2024, all movement seemed to have stopped for these two bills.   Besides our many FAC members who sent emails to the Louisiana legislators opposing these bills, there were organized groups from all over the country that participated in this email blitz. There was movement on May 15, 2024, with the

First published at narsol.org   It’s not too late to register for the NARSOL conference in Atlanta, Georgia, June 20 – 23. Go to https://conference.narsol.org/ where you can register, view the schedule of events, and even book a hotel room. Follow the hotel link on the conference website to determine if rooms in the NARSOL block are still available. At this conference, you

In Florida Action Committee’s most recent Weekly Update and Monthly Membership Call, we discussed paper arrests/felonies—when some error or omission in a Person Forced to Register’s (PFR) registration paperwork results in an arrest because of the inaccuracy of the data they reported to their sheriff’s office and, in turn, reported to FDLE. We have also had discussions on incorrect information