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Nearly a year ago, as The Post and Courier’s Seanna Adcox reminds us, the high court ruled unanimously that South Carolina’s toughest-in-the-nation sex offender registry is unconstitutional, because it gives an unappealable lifetime sentence to people most of us wouldn’t think of as dangerous sex offenders. And the Legislature did nothing. For nearly 11 months, and counting. Three lawmakers introduced

A Pennsylvania man has launched an appeal after a Leon County circuit judge dismissed his challenge to a Florida law that kept him on a sexual-offender registry after a 10-day family vacation to Walt Disney World in 2015. The man, identified in court documents as John Doe, filed a notice Wednesday that he was taking the case to the 1st

The Dobbs Wire:  Videos!   The videos are now online from a remarkable conference at Metro State University in St. Paul, MN, on April 8th.  An annual event devoted to mass incarceration matters, organizers made a big shift by dedicating this year’s conclave to sexual violence and the scandalous Minnesota Sex Offender Program (MSOP).  By various measures MSOP is the worst such

The Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws (ACSOL) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) to challenge the federal SORNA regulations that became effective in January 2022.  As a signatory to the MOU, ACSOL has agreed to serve as a named plaintiff in the lawsuit which will be filed in the Central district of

A convicted sex offender has made a “plausible” claim that providing his email address and other internet identifying information to Connecticut officials violates his free speech rights, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday in reinstating his lawsuit against the state. The decision by a three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan mirrors other court rulings

Yesterday, an amended complaint was filed in Doe v. Swearingen, the case pending in the Northern District of Florida which (for convenience and not to be confused with Does v. Swearingen in the 11th Circuit) we refer to as Ex Post Facto Plus II. Recently that case survived a Motion to Dismiss filed by the State, so the Amended Complaint

A Roscommon TD will today seek support from the Justice Minister on changes to the current laws, to ensure that sex offenders cannot erase their past offences – either online or by changing their name. The Oireachtas Justice Committee will today debate changes to the Sex Offenders Amendment Bill, and Roscommon TD Denis Naughten is seeking to close off loopholes

I just want to let you know I read this FAC newsletter today and I thought about how I sent a very pungent and emotional letter to about 10 Congress people in AZ. In it, I also said that I had attached some less emotional and professionally stated oppositions points to one of the new bills they were trying to

In a settlement agreement with South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson along with State Law Enforcement Division Chief Mark Keel those wrongly convicted of sodomy in the state of South Carolina will now be taken off of the Sex Offender Registry in the Palmetto State. The announcement comes after arguments in Mary Geiger Lewis’s courtroom Friday, and argued in conjunction

Albert N. Wilson, now 26 years old, was sentenced to more than 12 years in prison after a Douglas County jury found him guilty of rape in January 2019. The case made headlines across the country because people many believed that Wilson, a young Black man, was wrongly convicted by a jury of mostly white women, symptomatic of larger issues