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Weekly Update #56 Dear Members and Advocates, One of the benefits of regularly visiting our site or participating in our monthly member calls is access to information you need to avoid unknowingly violating a registration requirement or becoming a victim of the latest scam targeting persons on the registry. This newest scam is a particularly heinous one. Extortionists are using

Weekly Update #55 Dear Members and Advocates: It’s Halloween week. The time of year persons required to register dread because news reports and vigilantes are focused on them. Some literally have signs posted at their homes! It’s an unnecessary shaming ritual that repeats itself annually. This year, two sister organizations, NARSOL and ACSOL, will be hosting a Halloween Marathon. It’s

Weekly Update #54 Dear Members and Advocates: Is it time to sue Facebook? The social media giant has a policy of banning persons required to register as sex offenders from their platform. Their Terms of Service expressly prohibit registrants from being on the platform and they even have a policy for removing profiles from persons required to register. Part of

Weekly Update #53 Dear Members and Advocates, Attorneys for the John Doe plaintiffs in the “Ex Post Facto Plus” challenge will have some important discovery from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement in their hands next week. Yesterday, a Federal Court Judge denied the FDLE’s motion for a protective order blocking the compelled answers to interrogatories propounded by Val Jonas

Weekly Update #51 Dear Members and Advocates: When I first became involved with FAC, I fielded a lot of calls and emails from people caught up in “sex offender stings”. These “stings” are painted by law enforcement as operations seeking to catch adults trolling the internet for children to have sex with. Like most of the general public who didn’t

Weekly Update #50 Dear Members and Advocates: Three years ago I was very angry at Galen Baughman. Galen was an outspoken anti-registry activist. He had recently been awarded a Soros Fellowship, he was just featured by a respected NY Journalist, and most publicly he had put out a great TED Talk called “Are We All Sex Offenders?” which we hoped

Weekly Update #49 Dear Members and Advocates, With 2019 being the “Year of the Family”, for our 2019 legal challenge we decided not to bring a lawsuit challenging registration requirements on behalf of people on the registry, but a lawsuit challenging registration requirements on behalf of people not on the registry! The lawsuit will be brought on behalf of their

Weekly Update #47 Dear Members and Advocates, As Hurricane Dorian continues to threaten the east coast of Florida, our first hope is that you and your families are taking precautions to keep yourselves safe from the storm. For those who are subject to evacuation orders, we have set up a post on our site to exchange information on where you

Weekly Update #46 Dear Members and Advocates, Yesterday, a Motion for Reconsideration was submitted in the “In-Person Challenge”. Last week, a Federal District Court Judge ruled that the plaintiff, Matthew 25 Ministries, Inc. did not have standing to sue on behalf of their members. While the dismissal of the case on those grounds was disappointing, the order itself was anything

Weekly Update #45 Dear Members and Advocates, It was a good week in courts across the country as three opinions came out that were favorable to our advocacy.  The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals (the Federal circuit covering Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah and Wyoming) held that while a court can still ban internet use, a special condition of