Author: FAC Contributor #3

Our apologies: a member pointed out the following bill was intended to circumvent a Florida Appellate District Court opinion that someone’s obligation to register does not begin until they have paid off all fines (see: State of Florida vs. Ray La Vel James, Fla. 2nd DCA 2020, Case No. 2D18-2552 (Opinion Filed April 15, 2020)) Florida Senate Bill 162, sponsored

This is something we wrote about earlier and has been a concern. The Lockport Central School District of NY had installed an “AEGIS facial recognition system” consisting of cameras placed throughout schools in the District. They claimed that the system would be used to identify sex offenders and other “unauthorized” people. Advocacy groups and civil rights organizations pushed back and

The women’s prison in Ocala – the Lowell Correctional Institution – has a long standing accusation of abuse of the women incarcerated there and a recent report by the United State Department of Justice is adding flames to the fire.  This new report is claiming that the conditions at Lowell Correctional Institution violate the constitution. The Civil Rights Division of

Congress passed a new bill yesterday that is primarily focused upon COVID issues. Hidden in that legislation, which totals more than $900 billion, is about $200 million for the management of individuals required to register as sex offenders. The largest amount of funding for the management of registrants is $179 million for expenses related to “community supervision and sex offender

As promised, the Ex Post Facto Plus case has not seen the end of the road. Yesterday, attorneys for the Does filed a Motion to Alter or Amend the Order. A copy of the Motion is below, but in lay terms it argues that the very recent 11th Circuit Court Case upon which the court relied should be distinguished from

The Michigan Senate voted Wednesday to codify court-recommended changes in the state’s Sex Offender Registration Act. The legislation now only needs Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s signature to become law. State lawmakers approved altering registration protocols for sex offenders during its Wednesday session, fulfilling a 4-year-old mandate from the U.S. Court of Appeals. The federal court ruled in 2016 that it was unconstitutional to

This is a topic we wrote about several times over the last couple of months. We’re glad to see it’s getting some attention in this article, and hopefully more to come. The case sheds lights on the unique challenge of how to maintain sex offender registries when mental health issues due to age or other circumstances leave convicted offenders unable

The City of Deltona, Florida is considering expanding their Sex Offender Residency Restrictions. A resolution was brought forward this past Monday to “add “Designated School Bus Stops, Libraries, and Churches to the list defining locations as to where children congregate so that distancing calculations as to living restriction where an individual convicted of a violation of F.S. Section 794.011, 800.04,

I commend The Southern for the well-researched article asking if we are any safer because of sex offense registration laws. I was a member of the 2017 Bipartisan Task Force quoted in the article, which gave legislators specific steps to increase public safety. It is extremely distressing that “the General Assembly has not taken any significant action” on our recommendations.