Author: FAC Contributor #3

The office of Florida’s Attorney General, Ashley Moody, put out some dangerous misinformation this past week. In this article it is reported that Ms. Moody’s office suggested “that parents visit the Florida Department of Law Enforcement website to see a list of all registered sex offenders and predators living within a five mile radius of any Florida neighborhood. Florida law

One of our Members chose to use his time on “Halloween House Arrest” productively. As he sat in his home with the porch lights off, he composed a letter to his Senators. He was kind enough to share it with us.   October 31, 2021 Dear Senator  ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­____________, I am writing today specifically because once again our Government has determined

This opinion piece, posted today in the LA Times, presents a pretty fair picture of the issue finding placement for people on the registry. While the man described in this article is on the more heinous end of the spectrum for those with this label, the experience is the same for all. Here are some excerpts… Even after his prison

Three men were sentenced to 15 years to life in prison after pleading no contest this week to killing a registered sex offender during a home-invasion robbery in his Redondo Beach apartment in 2017, authorities said. Whether Marshall’s past played a role in his death was unclear. He was arrested in 2009 after a man told police Marshall drugged and sexually assaulted him in

More than 100 people have been arrested in a Florida human trafficking investigation that focused on victims who might be forced into prostitution, a sheriff said Thursday. The arrests were the culmination of a six-day undercover operation that involved several law enforcement agencies, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said at a news conference. Those arrested were charged with a total

From ACSOL: The purpose of this email is to alert you that the proposed federal SORNA regulations are now moving forward after receiving approval from the Office of Management and Budget.  Below is an article that I have just written about this and I hope you will not only notify the members of your group about this development but also

Media fearmongering over “Registered Sex Offenders” in the community has become an annual Halloween tradition in the same way as razor blades and poison in candy. Wendy Murphy (who famously stated she “never met a false rape claim” during the Duke Lacrosse case) declared in the Boston Herald that “Halloween is like Christmas for sex offenders,” and local news outlets

The Dobbs Wire:  Do we need the sex offense registry?  Counting registrants, family members and significant others, the number of people directly impacted by sex offense registration laws in the U.S. is estimated at several million.  Every state has had a registry for at least 25 years and politicians continually push for  harsher registration requirements.  These are all good reasons

In a decision out of the Ohio Supreme Court today, the Court ruled that ‘Sierah’s Law,’ (creating a violent offender database, which became effective March 20, 2019) does not violate Ohio’s constitutional prohibition on retroactive statutes, when retroactively applied to an offense that occurred before March 20, 2019. Interestingly, the Court analogized the violent offender database to the sex offender

A judge in Florida this week sentenced a 44-year-old man to spend the remainder of his life behind bars for the brutal murder of his former prison cellmate—a convicted child sex offender—whose throat he crushed. “Inmate Carruthers strangled Inmate Kever and forcefully stomped his throat area that led to his death,” arresting documents reportedly stated. “Inmate Carruthers showed no regard for