Author: FAC Contributor #3

A Pennsylvania man has filed a challenge to a Florida law that has kept him on a sexual-offender registry after a 10-day family vacation to Disney World in 2015. The man, identified in court documents as John Doe, reported to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office when he came to Florida because he was on a Pennsylvania registry at the time

The City of Irvine, California is being sued by Janice Bellucci (ACSOL) on behalf of two persons required to register who want to take their own children to a park. According to this article, Irvine’s municipal code requires people on the registry who were convicted of an offense involving a minor to get written permission from the police chief to

From a side-battle in the Ex Post Facto Plus case, new insight is emerging as to just how ambiguous, vague and subjective the Florida Sex Offender registration statute is. Plaintiffs in the case have fought for anonymity, which was granted for the case, but the Defendant (FDLE) clearly knows who they are. When it comes to litigating a couple of

A Seventh Circuit panel heard arguments Friday over whether a Wisconsin law barring convicted sex offenders from changing their name amounts to free speech infringement. The underlying lawsuit was brought in Milwaukee federal court in May 2019 by Karen Krebs, a transgender woman from Kenosha, Wisconsin, who cannot change her name due to a 1992 conviction which required her to

One year ago, we published a post called Texas law firm does HUGE disservice to registrants. Teri Estes-Hightower, a Texas lawyer, saw registrants as a business opportunity. She used their state’s public registry as a marketing list to solicit clients at $5,000 +/- a pop for a lawsuit to challenge the registry. That lawsuit was total garbage, as we mentioned

The Oklahoma City Police Department pulled off a social media coup on July 7. “Meet the top 10 most wanted individuals being sought by our Sex Offender Registration Unit,” the department posted on its Facebook page. “It’s important we keep tabs on these guys (and gal), so help us find them.” The post engaged a huge number of readers, receiving

We’re always knocking News4Jax and their hack reporters for the fear-mongering stories they put out and complete lack of fact checking they put into their “journalism”. Last week we got the spooky fear mongering sex offender Halloween story. The fact that they put out a few of their annual stories perpetuating the myth that there’s an increased risk of sexual

A Wisconsin man is charged with bludgeoning his grandfather to death, allegedly in anger over a crime that occurred before he was even born. Charles Luitze, 70, was found dead inside his home in August with a hammer still embedded in his face, according to the Kenosha News. Luitze was a registered sex offender as a result of a 1991

Adam is 33. He is developmentally disabled and lives in Illinois with his mother and her husband, both retired, who still have to remind him to brush his teeth and shower. He stopped wetting his bed at age 16. Ten years ago, when a neighbor—a young man with a troubled past, who had molested Adam—told him to pull down his

Before you get too excited, this is an as-applied case, meaning the decision only benefits the person challenging and not everyone on the Pennsylvania registry, but it’s a win nonetheless, and a win on a novel argument, so it’s good news. A Pennsylvania intermediate court found that SORNA violates an individual’s right to reputation under Article I, Section 1 of