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For those who want to call in and listen: Next Board Meeting is on Friday, May 15, 2020 at 11 AM. Due to COVID-19 and Social Distancing, the meeting will be held via teleconference only. Please follow the instructions below for access. Dial – 1 (415) 655-0002 Meeting Number (access code) – 716 027 695 Meeting password – jnMJwiBF443 For

A couple of years ago, Fort Lauderdale’s sex offender residency restriction (SORR) was declared unconstitutional. In response, the Ft. Lauderdale City Commissioners voted to lessen their SORR to try and make it pass constitutional muster. Despite warnings that the new ordinance still didn’t go far enough to have an impact, the new SORR was enacted. Now, one year later, a

Charles R Hobbs Jr. is the first Miami-Dade jail inmate to die from the virus. He was in jail awaiting trial after being arrested for failure to register as a sex offender. The underlying conviction for which he was registered was from 1998. He committed no other sexual offenses in the more than 20 years since. According to his failure

A lawsuit has been filed against Weld County Sheriff Steve Reams after a 78 year-old man who was jailed in March for failure to register as a sex offender contracted Coronavirus and died from it right after being released. Charles Peterson was jailed on March 11th for failure to register as a sex offender. After numerous requests to release him,

The report empirically explores three potential relationships that may exist: Deterrent: As the prison length increases, the likelihood of recidivism decreases. Criminogenic: As the prison length increases, the likelihood of recidivism increases. No Effect: No statistically significant relationship between prison length and recidivism is identified. Findings In each model, prison sentences of longer than 10 years (120 months) had a deterrent effect.

The Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws (ACSOL) filed a lawsuit today in a federal district court challenging in-person registration requirements of both the City of Fresno and the County of Fresno. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California. SOURCE Complaint – CONFORMED – 28 April 2020 Complaint – Exhibit A – 28 April

The Coronavirus pandemic is a global emergency. People confined against their will in high concentrations at close proximity in notoriously overcrowded facilities are extremely vulnerable to this invisible, quickly spreading threat. Civil rights and human rights organizations have called on officials to release persons from the traditional legal system but have overlooked people confined to “Civil” facilities “for treatment” after

The coronavirus pandemic has led to an unprecedented shutdown of many American institutions, from professional sports to many government agencies, including the suspension of many non-essential law enforcement services from fingerprinting to vehicle registration. However, people required to register under the complex public sex offense registry scheme must still register in person. This puts the health of registrants, their families,

The Volusia County Jail is prohibiting in-person visitations for inmates, as many correctional facilities have due to the coronavirus pandemic. But one thing the Volusia County facility has limited that others in the area haven’t: The way inmates are able to communicate with their lawyers. Attorney Carlus Haynes said he has to pay to talk to his six clients at

While we never want a challenge to sex offender laws to be unsuccessful, we are relieved to see a case brought by Estes-Hightower in the Northern District of Florida was dismissed last week. We had previously written about this firm and their lawsuit, suggesting they did a huge disservice to registrants in the State of Florida (and Texas) by filing