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Florida sheriff who threatened arrests at shelters is sued threatened arrests at shelters is sued. A man who claims he was denied entry to a shelter unless he underwent a background check is suing Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, who got national attention after saying on Twitter he would jail anyone with an outstanding warrant who tried to seek shelter

A proposal to end the lifetime listing of many convicted sex offenders on a public registry in California was revived Friday when its author put the language in a separate bill, bypassing a committee that shelved the measure last week. Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) took a bill he authored that would extend the hours of bars in the state, gutted

An Indiana Court of Appeals on Thursday heard the case of John Doe, et al. v. The Boone County Prosecutor, et al., 06A01-1612-PL-02741, which the ACLU of Indiana brought on behalf of three John Doe registered sex offenders who under Indiana Code 35-42-4-14, prohibits them from entering school property or enter a building that provides programming for children under three

MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee Common Council voted on Wednesday, September 6th to all but eliminate the city’s residency restrictions for sex offenders, and there’s one sex offender in particular who likely played a big role in the change. The council voted to remove a restriction as to where sex offenders can live. Currently, general sex offenders cannot live within 2,000

As residents of Florida are bracing down to prepare for Hurricane Irma, what is expected to be the strongest natural disaster to hit the Atlantic coast this century, Polk County Sheriff, Grady Judd, takes the time to post the following message to his Twitter account: What’s wrong with this guy? Please feel free to exercise your First Amendment right to

In the interest of time, we are asking members to contact their local probation office and Sheriff’s department to find out what provisions are being made for Registered Sex Offenders and Predators in each County/City. Since registrants are excluded from most emergency shelters and a significant proportion of this population are homeless, we strongly advise against waiting until the last

FAC NOTE: The article below is just more proof that we have nothing coming to us if we count on the legislators. Also note the idiotic reason; “it would cost tens of millions of dollars to make the change”. Really?!?! How about the tens of millions of dollars it costs to keep everyone on for life? _____ A bill that

Win in Colorado:  A federal judge declared Colorado’s sex offense registry law unconstitutional!  The court ruled the law is *punishment* and went even farther, finding the law is such severe punishment (“cruel and unusual”) that it violates the 8th Amendment.  In addition the court found the law fails to deliver constitutionally mandated basic fairness (“due process”) and violates the 14th

In another big win yesterday, an Indiana appellate Court determined that a law banning sex offenders from schools is Unconstitutional as applied to parents of children attending that school whose cases pre-date the law. The Judge’s order found that restricting the registrant from his own child’s school was a “disability or restraint [that] is neither minor nor indirect”. It was

Earlier this week, the Florida Action Committee sent a letter to the County Commissioners for Miami-Dade County, requesting the repeal of the sex offender residency restriction that has caused over 250 individuals to live in squalor, without shelter or sanitation alongside active railroad tracks. A link to the letter can be found here: https://floridaactioncommittee.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Letter-To-M-D-County-Commissioners-08282017.pdf The letter also contains references to