Author: FAC Contributor #1

High-priced ‘junk science’ in Colorado:   A Denver Post investigative reporter, Christopher Osher, has a  very interesting and detailed report about Colorado’s “aggressive” use of polygraph tests on persons convicted of sex offenses.  Considered unreliable *junk science,* the results nonetheless help determine the fate of those subjected to the tests.  Colorado is not alone;  an estimated 70% of states are using

Sessions’ office releases memo to all 94 US attorneys calling for reversal of Holder-era policy Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ office sent out a letter late Thursday to the nation’s federal prosecutors instructing them to pursue the most serious charges possible against most criminal suspects. The move will send more people to prison and for much longer terms by triggering mandatory

South Carolina’s Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of a law imposing *lifetime* registration and electronic monitoring on juveniles for some sex offenses. The Associated Press has the details in a short article, below.  In a longer story reporting reaction to the ruling, Charleston’s Post and Courier found an “outcry” from researchers and lawyers.  Doug Berman chimes in with legal

The following article, along with a case we are organizing on behalf of out-of-state registrants who are on the Florida registry, gives some hope that there might be ways to challenge the registration requirement. ___ The 12th Circuit State Attorney Office has dropped a case against a man accused of failing to register as a sex offender. The Holmes Beach

A Canadian initiative that helps reintegrate convicted sexual offenders back into society — an approach that cuts recidivism rates by anywhere from 67 to 92 per cent — has been granted $7.48 million in funding by the federal government. Circles of Support and Accountability, which has 14 sites across the country, will received the money over five years to fund

One of the bills we were watching carefully and particularly concerned about was Senator Lauren Book’s SB 1558, which would create a “rebuttable presumption of dangerous” to one’s own child if the parent had a CP offense in their history. As of Friday, the bill was reported as, “Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration.” Special thanks to all those who

A new bill in Missouri seeks to slap anyone who was found guilty of a sex offense after August 2006 to wear a GPS ankle bracelet for life. Thankfully the attorney quoted in the following article recognizes the law will be challenged. More can be found here: http://www.ozarksfirst.com/news/defense-attorney-warns-against-sex-offender-tracking-device/707907181.

MILWAUKEE — A group of lawmakers says Wisconsin’s sex offender registry is watered down with teenagers who have no purpose being on it, and they’ve proposed legislation to carve out a so-called “Romeo and Juliet” exemption. Under the bill, teenagers between the ages of 15 and 18 years old who have consensual sex would no longer be put on the

In January, Broward County car owners who received their auto tag renewal notices also got a special message from Lauren’s Kids, the nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing child sex abuse and founded by freshman State Sen. Lauren Book. Inside the envelopes, colorful flyers bearing Lauren’s Kids logo wished vehicle registrants a happy birthday while segueing into an ominous stat: “Yet