Author: FAC Contributor #3

MUST READ A local resident’s request to the Cedar City Council for an exemption to one of its ordinances has raised the question of when – or if – a convicted sex offender who has since served their time and been crime-free should be allowed to have the same freedoms to pursue a living as other citizens. “The only thing

The family of a Texas teacher are suing a local police department, claiming that a detective drove him to suicide by unjustly arresting him as part of a sting operation. A 39-year-old junior high school teacher from Conroe, Texas, poisoned himself to death with carbon monoxide just days after being released from the Montgomery County jail in August 2019. At

A man was killed by his cellmate at the Airway Heights Corrections Center in Washington. Turns out the cellmate happened to have molested the killer’s sister. Coincidence? “I was like, ‘What the f—?’… This stuff doesn’t happen,” he told the broadcaster. “You’re talking the same institution, the same unit, the same pod in the same cell as this dude. That’s

New Jersey is another in the line of State Supreme Courts to say the legislature can’t move the finish line.and impose new burdens for past crimes. Below is a link to the decision, but below that is a very informative quote from it. https://www.njcourts.gov/attorneys/assets/opinions/supreme/a_24_20.pdf   [i]t is a fundamental principle of jurisprudence that retroactive application of new laws involves a

It’s hard enough finding and keeping a job as a registrant, even when you don’t have to advertise it. Sure, you have to live with the dread that a customer or co-worker will google your name or the other employees will gossip about you behind your back, but at least you have the opportunity to try to feed your family.

One of our members recently suggested that people share some of their successes in dealing with the registry and/or probation with other FAC members.  These suggestions will hopefully help others to meet with more successes. Two years ago, I read the following suggestions at our FAC website and have met with some success in following them: Keep one of the

Apple for years has focused on adding new programs to its phones, all designed to make life easier. Its systems scan emails for new calendar appointments, and its Siri voice assistant suggests to call friends on their birthdays. But Apple’s latest feature is focused on abuse. The tech giant said in a new section of its website published Thursday that

The final Judgment just came out from the Eastern District of Michigan and it’s a good one! Michigan’s pre-2021 SORA is DECLARED to be punishment! Ex post facto application of the 2006 and 2011 amendments is DECLARED unconstitutional, the 2011 amendments are DECLARED not severable from the pre-2021 SORA, and the pre-2021 SORA is therefore DECLARED NULL AND VOID as

Sheriff Judd arrested 17 people in “Operation Child Protector” which ran from July 27 through Aug. 1. The sting created a revenue stream for central Florida by generating a purported 49 felonies and two misdemeanours, including “travelling to meet a minor for sex, attempted lewd battery, use of a computer to seduce a child and transmission of material harmful to

A federal judge rejected the Pasco County Sheriff’s motion to dismiss a case against Sheriff Chris Nocco’s Orwellian “predictive policing” program, the Institute of Justice said in a release Wednesday. In a lawsuit filed by Pasco County families back in March, Nocco was accused of punishing people “for crimes they have not committed and may never commit” – in a