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Weekly Update #123 Dear Members and Advocates, I have been writing a similar Thanksgiving week update every year since I’ve become involved in FAC. The general theme being; there are those among us who are living on street corners, isolated from their families because of residency restrictions, curfew or simply abandonment. We need to keep these individuals in mind and

Weekly Update #121 Dear Members and Advocates, A few days ago I had a conversation with a friend and fellow advocate that made me completely re-think my identity. For the longest time I’ve always considered myself an advocate for “reform” and our movement as the “registry reform movement”. Truth is, I’m not advocating to reform the registry. Unless the “reform”

Weekly Update #120 Dear Members and Advocates, You probably noticed there wasn’t a weekly update last week. That was because the election was consuming the world’s attention and the news media had plenty of content to keep their readers engaged. There may have been very few “stings”, “operations” or “crackdowns” to report on, but behind the scenes there was still

Weekly Update #118 Dear Members and Advocates, Yesterday a new Justice was sworn in to the Supreme Court of the United States. Amy Coney Barrett has joined the nation’s top court and with a lifetime appointment, at the age of 48 she will probably be around for many of our lifetimes. So the question many of you are probably asking

Weekly Update #117 Dear Members and Advocates, Last week we wrote about a few hotels in New York that are the subject of protests. Since the outbreak of Coronavirus, the city’s homeless shelters have struggled to keep their residents socially distanced to avoid outbreaks of the disease that can quickly spread in communal living situations. The ideal solution was to

Weekly Update #116 Dear Members and Advocates, This week’s update has one message. If you have not left comments for the DOJ Proposed Amendments to SORNA, today is the deadline. The link where you can leave comments is: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/08/13/2020-15804/registration-requirements-under-the-sex-offender-registration-and-notification-act Comments are due by 11:59 PM Tuesday, 10/13/20! As of the time of this writing there are 687 public comments submitted.

Weekly Update #115 Dear Members and Advocates, A good decision came out of a Massachusetts appellate court yesterday. The Court sided with a registrant who was arrested and convicted for failing to register his work address. But did he fail to register his work address? You see, the man was a handyman who did home renovations. He reported to the

Weekly Update #113 Dear Members and Advocates, I begin this week with a mea culpa. In last week’s update I wrote about the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the impact a Supreme Court Justice has on shaping rights and liberties in this country. I praised the decisions in Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade and Obergefell v.

Weekly Update #112 Dear Members and Advocates, On Friday, the world lost Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Her death was a great loss to the Court and to those who shared her ideologies, but it was also a great loss to our cause. RBG was one of only two Justices that dissented against the majority opinion in Smith v. Doe,

Weekly Update #111 Dear Members and Advocates, The California Bill that we wrote about last week was signed off by Governor Newsom. That’s good news. What continues to boggle the mind is how two stories can present completely different perspectives on the same set of facts and how so many people will buy into (and I hate to use this