With Unity Comes Change
By the time deputies arrested Thomas Bernard Brown for failing to register as a sexual predator, he had built up a 10-year record of consistent registration in Marion County. That’s 42 check-ins, as his attorneys and his friends pointed out at a sentencing hearing in June. When it came to No. 43, Brown, 72, who has since been diagnosed with
Read moreToday, CBS12 put out another scare piece that begins, “Our schools and playgrounds have become a home for sex offenders.” With no shortage of inflammatory statements, such as “registered offenders are eyeing schools too”, “offenders are also getting creative” and “it sounds frightening because it is”, the piece omits all objectivity. They write, “three years later transient sex offenders in
Read moreThe turd of a news piece put out by CBS12 on Monday, entitled “Why are Sex Offenders Allowed Online?” has been edited on their site. If you monitor our website, you probably saw this post on Monday, in which we pointed out some glaring and inflammatory lies contained in the original CBS12 report. We asked FAC members to hold CBS12
Read moreWith the election of Donald Trump, reporters who follow criminal justice reform expect a harder line on issues of crime and sentencing. Trump ran as a law-and-order President who will cut crime–though long-term crime rates have fallen dramatically since the early 1990s. On sex crime policy, if the new administration is serious, they should pay attention to new research showing
Read moreThe following are excerpts from a 2nd DCA case that was decided today in Alvarado v. Florida. We believe it demonstrates Courts’ recognition that Sex Offender Residency Restrictions are a problem the legislature needs to address. “The dilemma facing sexual predators and offenders upon their release from prison was largely created by the legislature, albeit enhanced by county ordinances;and a
Read moreLester Packingham posted something to Facebook thanking God for beating a traffic ticket. The post wasn’t offensive, didn’t threaten anyone, contained nothing inherently criminal and was probably more benign than some of the stuff our president elect posts to his own social media account, but Mr. Packingham was convicted of a crime for that post. Why? Because Packingham is a
Read moreIn America, should sexual predators be given the opportunity to communicate on the Internet when it is possible they may message our children? Sex offenders are arguing that the First Amendment shields them from being blocked from social media websites that children utilize. The Supreme Court will soon rule on whether the First Amendment, in fact, does this. In America,
Read moreDoes Ohio’s current Sex Offender registry work? That is a question the state of Ohio has seemingly answered and is now voting on implementing changes that will allow low-level, low-risk individuals to come off the list, freeing up resources for supervision of high-risk offenders who are currently falling through the cracks. Cleveland 19 News Cleveland, OH
Read moreA notice of appeal was filed [yesterday] in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. This is the first formal step required in order to appeal the dismissal of the only court challenge to the International Megan’s Law (IML). “The IML unfairly and unjustly labels hundreds of thousands of American citizens as sex tourists and sex traffickers,” stated ACSOL President Janice
Read moreFDLE Special Agent Chuck McMullen was arrested and charged with the sexual battery of two 8 year old boys. McMullen worked cases for the Gulf Coast and Santa Rosa Kids House, centers that advocate for abused children. In that role he had easy and trusted access to children, which he allegedly repeatedly molested. He was originally released on $1.5M bond,
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