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A 53-year-old man on the sex offender registry was sentenced to 36 months in prison after “willfully” voting in the 2020 election while “not qualified” to do so.  The problem, though, is that no one in an official capacity was able to determine that he was not qualified.  Sandra McDonald and Maria Fernanda Camacho with WUFT News in Alachua County

Actually, the need for nursing home care for people forced to register on the sex offender registry is beyond a crisis state – it is catastrophic. Before the Florida legislative session began this year, some of our FAC members organized to send letters to certain legislators, informing them of the critical situation that so many registered persons and their families

If you’re charged with voting illegally in Florida, it’s becoming harder to predict how your case will end. Conviction? Dismissal? Plea bargain? It’s anyone’s bet. One key fact in common with the defendants: they were issued valid voter ID cards by the state of Florida. Read the rest from WESH 2. Congratulations to WESH on seeking out a variety of

In Greenville County, SC, nine out of the 560 people forced to register for a sex offense were found not to be living where they said they were living or failed to register.  What should have been the takeaway in this story:  None of the 560 people was found to have committed a new sex offense.  Isn’t this what society

States sued over the registry often try to get the case against them dismissed on procedural grounds. Sometimes a state will argue that a suit is time-barred, not ripe, brought too soon, brought too late, or that plaintiffs lack standing. Or, as in the example of this case, the state argued that we are simply suing the wrong people. In

Recently we posted a story from The New Yorker on an innocent man being sent to prison and then placed on the registry for a rape that he did not commit.  One reason for this travesty was the overreach of a prosecutor who carelessly handled the results of a botched identification in a lineup. This particular case, if it had

By Sandy Rozek, Communications Director for NARSOL Jacob Wetterling’s abduction and death in 1989 led directly to a massive system of laws that today affects close to a million men, women, and children plus their family members. In that same year, 1989, the death by firearms of 4,384 children and teens caused barely a blip on the radar. What if,

Posted 6/1/2023 NOTE: This request has been satisfied thanks to the member that provided a copy of the DMV letter.  The member was there to register multiple temporary addresses.  DMV would only accept two temporary addresses and asked the person to return when the other addresses were going to be used.  Because DMV could only accept 2 addresses was NOT

This all-too-common theme is to promote harsher laws for people with a sex offense all in the name of protecting our communities. Political leaders in Tallahassee, along with our Florida governor, have passed and signed into law Bill 537 that effectively removes the possibility of any gain time while incarcerated for people who have been charged with an “attempted” sex

Fascinating from The New Yorker (note article limit and paywall)