Author: FAC Contributor #10

As the cancer of sex offender ordinances is trying to pass from county to county and municipality to municipality in Florida, we must stay united in our fight against this insanity.  Our FAC board members will tell you that the situation is far from hopeless as more and more opportunities are coming our way to stop what some uninformed individuals

The issue of the clustering of people on the sex offender registry in Tampa continues.  Fortunately the council members are interested in the research and will be holding a workshop on November 30 to study the matter further.  FAC has contacted some experts in this area and is reaching out to the council to hopefully include these people in the

Major Concerns: The need for nursing home care for people required to register is beyond a crisis state – it is catastrophic. Most nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and rehab facilities in Florida are not accepting people on the registry. The two major reasons are: (1) residency restrictions and (2) facilities will not accept people on the sex offender registry.

We sent out two Calls to Action this past June for Volusia County’s proposed sex offender ordinance.  The proposed ordinance was withdrawn, and it appeared to have quietly died.  This was not the case, though, as the sponsor brought it back recently with a vengeance.   This council member calls it “Common sense legislation” – increasing residency requirements in unincorporated areas

At the October 19 Tampa City Council meeting, Dr. Bryanna Fox, a professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of South Florida, was able to help the city commissioners understand that SORN is a complete failure. But unfortunately, the council members do not understand that the state residency restrictions are what is causing the clustering problem.  Some council

This summer, FAC wrote a post on Horowitz’s new book, From Rage to Reason, describing the narratives used in the book to document the failures of the registry and its accompanying laws. Having read the book myself, I know that these are stories that need to be read by our policy makers, whether it be city/county commissioners, state legislators in

NARSOL previously questioned whether the public conviction registries in Illinois could be on the brink of collapse as there were so many people required to register under its bursting registries while lacking the resources to maintain these various registries.   The Chicago 400 and the Illinois Voices for Reform (with Adele Nicholas serving as its Executive Director) are working toward changes

This lawsuit was filed recently in a federal district court, challenging that the First Amendment protects citizens from compelled speech. The ACSOL Executive Director Janice Bellucci will be added as an attorney in the lawsuit once the court approves. SOURCE: ACSOL News Alert: Federal Lawsuit Challenges Missouri Halloween Sign Requirement, October 5, 2023

“A Portland man was acquitted last month after being granted a new trial on appeal, nearly five years after he was convicted in connection with an undercover child sex sting.”  (The Columbian, “Portland man arrested in Clark County sting acquitted of child sex abuse in new trial,” Becca Robbins, October 2, 2023) “His case was featured in an August 2020

NARSOL continues to fight against the harsh, barbaric laws that are passed to further punish people on the registry who have served out their sentence and are trying to reintegrate back into society as law-abiding citizens. Appearing in an article published this week concerning a situation in Illinois where research is not a priority for some policy makers, NARSOL is