Author: FAC Contributor #3

The following is an excerpt from this article that points out just how misguided the perceptions are when it comes to who the perpetrators of sexual offenses are. Minors coerced into sex for money, minors coerced to perform in pornographic content are part of our current world. But the preparators, in most cases, hide behind a familiar face. One study

Yesterday, the Does’ Brief was filed in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in the “Ex Post Facto Plus” challenge. The appeal raises the following two issues: Whether the district court erred in refusing to apply the continuing violation doctrine to plaintiffs’ claims against the cumulative effects of 21 years’ worth of increasingly restrictive and mutually-aggravating amendments to FSORNA 2018,

A woman has sued Reddit for allowing an ex-boyfriend to repeatedly post pornographic images of her as a 16-year-old. The lawsuit applies controversial measures instituted in 2018 under FOSTA-SESTA to a site that’s drawn particular criticism for child sexualization. The resulting case will test the limits of platforms’ legal shields amid ongoing efforts to pare back the law behind them.

Hoping to become the first, the Mitchell Hamline School of Law Dean proctored the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) for two inmates incarcerated in Minnesota last week. The Mitchell Hamline School of law, which houses a Sex Offense Policy and Resource Center (https://mitchellhamline.edu/sex-offense-litigation-policy/) wants to help people return from incarceration with a stronger chance of success by having an education

A psychologist who worked for more than six years at a state-operated treatment center for sex offenders in northern Minnesota has been charged with sexually assaulting two men while they were in custody at the facility. The psychologist, Michelle D. Brownfield, 38, of Duluth, was charged with two counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct involving the men, who were undergoing

A very, very, very nice owner of a Motel in the town of New Paltz in upstate NY is suing the city over a recent ordinance that limits the number of registered sex offenders who can reside at his motel. The lawsuit, Case #: EF2021‑857 filed in Ulster County Supreme Court, seeks to have the ordinance declared unconstitutional. The owners of

The super-team of Mark Weinberg and Adele Nicholas filed a new complaint in the Eastern District of Wisconsin challenging the Villiage of Hartland’s moratorium on allowing persons required to register as a sexual offender. The named plaintiff is a 34 year old who landed on the registry in 2007. He’s currently living in his parents home and, despite the difficulty

According to news reports, prosecutors stated that investigations into James Fairbanks, who is charged with Murdering Mattieo Condoluci, a persona required to register in Nebraska, had incriminating information on his computer to evidence the murder had been premeditated. The recovered information indicated he researched articles about other people who’d killed sex offenders and had looked up whether death row inmates in

I saw a very frustrating quote in last week’s Miami Times that I’d like to call out.  The City of Miami is doubling down on their homeless sweeps in an effort to get the city’s homeless population under control. The quote was, “Ron Book, chairman of the Miami-Dade County Homeless Trust, insisted that the city’s estimated unsheltered population of 555

A woman who threatened to brand an innocent man a sex offender to extort thousands of pounds and a TV set has been jailed for more than two and a half years. Sharon McDonald targeted the man on numerous occasions over a ten-month period. McDonald admitted extorting £2,700 and the electrical equipment out of her target. The 38-year-old threatened to