Author: FAC Contributor #3

[FAC NOTE: Yesterday’s Tampa Bay Times ran a story that sent chills down my spine. Having experience with the registry, I know what it’s like to live with a microscope up my ass, but having a mainstream news outlet publish the details of a police program designed to harass and entrap others feels almost vindicating. I’ve been describing this exact

As we dig deeper into the changes to SORNA and the independent registration obligations under state and federal law, we are becoming more concerned. Originally, we indicated that since Florida has implemented “SORNA on steroids” the federal obligations are not as harsh as our obligations in Florida. That’s true. While the proposed federal definition for a temporary residence is 7

The Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters has formally agreed to allow registrants to serve as poll workers. As a result of this agreement, the county has removed language from the website of the Registrar of Voters as well as the poll workers application that previously stated registrants were prohibited from serving as poll workers. “This is a significant victory

California lawmakers have approved a bill that seeks to apply the state’s sexual offense laws for straight people equally to LGBTQ individuals. Under current law, it is a crime for a person over the age of 18 to have sex with a person under the age of 18. But if an 18-year-old high schooler, for example, has “penile-vaginal” sex with

This proposed rule was published on August 13, 2020.  Written comments must be submitted on or before October 13, 2020 to: Regulations Docket Clerk, Office of Legal Policy, U.S. Department of Justice, 950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Room 4234, Washington, DC 20530.  To ensure proper handling, please reference Docket No. OAG 157 on your correspondence.  You may submit comments electronically or

ACSOL received today the first report that the U.S. State Department has notified a registrant by email that his passport has been revoked. The email included as an attachment a formal letter from the department. The email and letter were sent to the registrant on August 26, 2020, more than six months after his last trip overseas to a country

We are very excited to announce that University of Miami Law School Professor and attorney Tamara Rice Lave has joined the legal team representing the plaintiffs in Does v. Swearingen (the Ex Post Facto Plus case). Professor Lave is a graduate of the Stanford Law School. Prior to joining the UM law school faculty, she was a Deputy Public Defender

The new Adam Walsh Act amended regulations are out for comment for 60 days, and after the comment period will likely be adopted, finalized, and published in the Federal Register. NARSOL had posted an article stating there is reason for concern but not reason for panic. We removed that post because we are now more concerned due to a recent decision

According to this article, a Michigan law enforcement officer said the public should be aware information on the Michigan Sex Offender Registry might not be up to date following an April U.S. District Court interim order barring officials from enforcing the sex offender registration act. “Basing something off of that website would be a mistake,” he said. “Concerned parents should teach children age-appropriate safety.”

The village received more than a dozen emails opposing one element of the ordinance: A requirement for vacation rental owners to check for renters’ names on the national sex offender registry. If a property is within 2,500 feet of a school, school bus stop or park, it is a violation of Wellington’s code to rent to someone on the registry.