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This post was written by people within NARSOL and was first published at NARSOL.org.   NARSOL recently released copies of two expert reports filed last week in Antrim v. Carr, 19-cv-396 (Eastern District of Wisconsin).     According to NARSOL, “The case challenges Wisconsin’s statutory scheme requiring that certain individuals convicted of sexual offenses be forced to wear a GPS monitoring

By Sandy Rozek, Communications Director with NARSOL   First published at NARSOL.org A young man in Mississippi was arrested on January 7, 2024, for statutory rape that he committed in 2018 when he was 13 years old. The local media says that he is the youngest person on their local sex offense registry.  Rozek questions why he has been placed

News abounds of cases where individuals charged with specific criminal activity also see efforts to attach a sex offense charge and regulate the individual through a state run SORNA regime.     In People v. Brown in the state of New York, a defendant was convicted of robbing his aunt in front of his 10 year old niece.  The “unlawful imprisonment”

In Henry v Abernathy, a Federal Judge ruled that Alabama’s law restricting PFRs (persons forced to register) from living with minor children is unconstitutional.   The State is enjoined from enforcing that section of the law.     The case describes Alabama’s law (ASORNA) as “the most comprehensive and debilitating sex offender scheme in the country.”   Perhaps unique to Alabama

The 2024 Legislative Session for the Florida Legislature convenes today, January 9.  Last spring’s session was very active with a few proposed laws that were extremely harmful to this community.  With tremendous assistance from you, the Florida Action Committee was very successful in advocating to prevent those bills from passing.    That success can never be taken for granted.  

In addition to ferreting through government websites, the Registrant Travel Action Group (RTAG) was a primary aggregator of information for those persons forced to register (PFR) seeking to travel internationally.  It has been a year since RTAG posted updates.  If someone is preparing to travel now, the information they seek needs to be accurate in the present.      A new

Click here to listen to the Recording of Membership Call for Thu Jan 4, 2024 – Meet the FAC Board of Directors discussing accomplishments of 2023.  (Approximately 56 minutes) Goals for 2024 are an extension of the 2023 goals as we Take it to the Next Level:  Seek relief from the residency restrictions for those in need of long-term or short-term

A review of December data on the Florida Registry shows the following: Total Individuals On the Registry 85,224 100% Absconded 1,108 1.3% Civil Commitment 508 .6% Confinement 19,606 23% Deceased 1,058 1.2% Deported 3,526 4.1% Citizens Forced to Register (59,418) Don’t reside in Florida 30,492 35.8% Reside in Forida 28,926 33.9%       A further breakdown of the 28,926

A new study provocatively titled, “There is No Such Thing as Zero Risk of Sexual Offense” declares that neither the general population nor the population of PFRs (Person Forced to Register) can be determined to be risk free from the occurrence of a sexual offense.     Acknowledging that many studies show low rates of recidivism by PFRs, or qualify those

In the US District Court in the Eastern District of Louisiana, Greenwald v Cantrell, et al poses fascinating, real world challenges to the unending limits of SORNA.     The individual involved is a PFR who suffers from seizures to such extent that she has been declared to be an “unrestorable incompetent.”  This health condition caused her to be unable to