Author: FAC Contributor #3

Below are two excerpts from article on the “memorial laws” and how they shaped society’s psyche and created a “stranger danger panic” nearly 40 years ago, that still remains today. The ACLU and others raised concerns that some memorial laws were too far-reaching, and had implications that were not being thoroughly discussed — including potentially increasing the likelihood that an

Kudos to our media committee for getting this point in the Daytona Beach News Journal ___ I just recently read the opinion article that was posted on May 8 concerning the subject of sex offenders — registered citizens. I was set back by several of Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly’s comments but especially his final comment on “safer Florida” and

In a letter to the attorneys in Does v. Miami Dade County, the Sex Offender Residency Restriction case that is currently before the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, the court notified that due to the Coronavirus, the Oral Arguments scheduled for the week of June 9, 2020 (when the case was scheduled to be heard) will either proceed on the

Yesterday, a Federal District Court in Tennessee found that the Tennessee Sex Offender Registry, as applied to the Plaintiff, violates the Constitution. The Court found; that the restrictions of SORVTA are much like traditional punishments of shaming, banishment, and probation, particularly when those restrictions are imposed for life, that the registry imposes an affirmative disability or restraint on Plaintiff, that

Obviously, there was a failure to communicate. In a blatantly thoughtless act, workers showed up Wednesday morning at a long-standing homeless encampment under an Overtown overpass, posted a metal sign in the ground saying anyone on the premises was trespassing, then forcibly removed the people — yes, the homeless are people, too — to who-knows-where. In the midst of the

The Nebraska Criminal Defense Attorneys Association (NCDAA) and ReConnect, Inc., have teamed with Nebraskans Unafraid (NU) to call on Gov. Ricketts to temporarily suspend in-person reporting requirements for registered people during the pandemic. The request was made in a May 11, 2020 letter to the governor. The letter was signed by Joseph L. Howard, president of the NCDAA Executive Board;

Out of State registrants in North Carolina and attorney Paul Dubbeling were handed a win yesterday in Federal Court, when the Judge granted summary judgement in their favor! The lawsuit, “concerns a discrete set of individuals who were required to register as sex offenders after moving to North Carolina prior to December 1, 2006, for out-of-state offenses committed prior to

May is Mental Health Month and today mental health is more important than ever. Our world has been turned upside down and we are all facing anxiety, loneliness, isolation and sadness.  The challenges we face today are impacting, not only our physical health, but also our  mental health. During the month of May, Mental Health America is sponsoring the “Million in

The Philippines Bureau of Immigration announced that an American national previously convicted of rape was barred entry into the country. The 61 year old man was detained upon arrival at Naia airport on May 2 upon his arrival aboard a Philippine Airlines flight from Los Angeles, California. He was returned to the US on the next flight. He was issued

In an opinion issued yesterday in the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, a person forced to register as a sex offender had the registry declared unconstitutional as applied to him, an individual whose offense was committed prior to the date of the registry or certain of it’s provisions. You can read the 58 page, well-reasoned opinion here: t.s._v._psp Pennsylvania had previously