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See an example of what happens when people forced to register on the sex offender registry get out there and speak to the media, even anonymously. In this case, a registrant spoke to the Utah news outlet KSL, resulting in more balanced, less hysterical coverage. The outlet also spoke to the Department of Corrections treatment director and accurately represented the

Kelsey Turner with InvestigateWest shows readers that what we are doing to prevent future sex crimes against children is NOT working. “Researchers say sex offender registration and notification laws can be counterproductive for public safety by keeping registrants on the streets: Tenino cited as example” According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, a Michigan study “found lack

At least one State Attorney last year declined to prosecute six people forced to register on the sex offender registry in cases similar to those later brought against 20 ex-felons by Florida’s election police unit and statewide prosecutors.  This State Attorney determined instead that, as the Orlando Sentinel summarized it, the fraud was not willful. Read more from the Orlando

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,