Author: FAC Contributor #3

FAC Members and any person required to register as a sex offender in Florida: BEWARE OF SCAMS. We continue to get dozens of reports from people who have been targeted by scammers trying to extort them for money, pretending to be law enforcement officers. PLEASE DO NOT fall for these scams. If you get a call from “a detective” telling

In 2015, he was released on parole. As part of the conditions of his release, he had to register as a sex offender. He got a job at a restaurant but was quickly fired after a police officer threatened to tell people a sex offender worked there. And in a sex offender therapy program he had to take, he refused

After the California Supreme Court declared unconstitutional municipal residency restrictions for persons on the registry who are not on probation, many repealed theirs. San Diego, on the other hand, dug in their heels and refused repeal theirs. The Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws’ Janice Bellucci warned them she would sue unless they changed their unenforceable residency restriction. Their own

This year will be focused on helping members to tell their story in various formats including  a 30-sec elevator pitch, 3-minute videos, magazine articles, editorials, letters, and even novels.  On the Monthly Membership call tonight Feb 6, 2020 at 8pm ET, we will be hearing from three guests:  a magazine editor, a book author, and a book printer.  Each guest

A new component of Trinidad’s National Sex Offenders registry went into effect on January 31, 2020. The registry can now be made public. Several countries have registries, but only the United States’ was publicly available. Now, if the Court orders, someone on the Trinidad registry will be publicized online too. At least the Ministry of the Attorney General and Legal

Here’s the conclusion from the Michigan Attorney General: “Michigan’s Sex Offender Registry Act, taken as a whole, imposes burdens that are so punitive in their effect that they negate the State’s public safety justifications. Accordingly, Amicus Curiae Attorney General Dana Nessel asks this Court to hold that SORA is punishment and its retroactive application violates the Ex Post Facto Clauses

Just goes to show that ANYONE can be a sex offender. Teachers, coaches, clergy and law enforcement officers! What’s confusing is the judge cited his “work as a federal marshal” as a mitigating factor. Shouldn’t the fact that he’s been in a position of authority be an aggrevating factor?

Not everyone supports johns registries, and a variety of groups say prostitution and human trafficking are very different crimes and should not be confused. They say prostitution is consensual and voluntary, and human trafficking is not. Most people arrested in prostitution operations are lonely men who went to a massage parlor or hired an escort from an online site, says

Attorneys for the plaintiffs in the Ex Post Facto Plus case, yesterday filed a response to the State’s Motion to Dismiss. You can (and should) read the response here: Does v. Swearingen – Response to Mot to Dismiss 01302020 As usual, Val Jonas and Todd Scher have done an amazing job on behalf of the Does and the entire registrant

Today, a Kane County Illinois judge denied a temporary restraining order against the city of Aurora’s eviction of 18 sex offenders from the Wayside Cross Ministries halfway house. The City claimed they can’t live there because it is less than 500 feet from a city playground and park. Mark Weinberg, one of the attorneys representing the men said that he