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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)

Registrants represented by Oliver Law Group appeal dismissal of their suit against governors and state police, as reported by Courthouse News. For more background on Michigan registrants’ challenge, visit Michigan ACLU’s SORA Resources Page.

The civil commitment fiasco gets covered in the publication Route Fifty: ”’There is no evidence that having these programs reduces sexual assaults,’ said [ACLU lawyer Ben] Wolf. ‘We have a good lab: Lots of states have these programs and lots don’t. There is no appreciable difference [in the number of sexual assaults reported]. If the goal is community safety, the

“There is a difference between the conviction and the effect of the registry’s label of a ‘high risk of danger’ on individuals, particularly things like unemployment and joblessness, houselessness, depression, and even suicide are affected by the label. SORNA says that individuals on this registry pose a risk of sexual danger, not just at the time of conviction, but now

Press Release: HARRISBURG, PA – The Pennsylvania Association for Rational Sexual Offense Laws (PARSOL) strongly urges the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania to uphold Chester County Judge Allison Bell Royer’s finding in the case of Comm. v. George Torsilieri that Pennsylvania’s Megan’s Law Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) is unconstitutional. Royer found that “SORNA is unconstitutional both facially and as

John Covert, with our affiliate, Arizonans for Rational Sex Offense Laws (AZRSOL), has published a guest column in the Arizona Capitol Times. In this column, John educates Arizona readers on the myth of “frightening and high,” how a Supreme Court decision perpetuates this myth, and the setbacks that this poor decision has caused. The Arizona Capitol Times, which has published

The great Meaghan Ybos is set to take over as President of Women Against Registry (WAR).  As WAR’s Past President Vicki Henry writes, “Meaghan is a surprising ally: a prominent and outspoken survivor of rape who is dedicated to abolishing the registry, ending systems of perpetual punishment, repealing pre-crime preventative detention laws, and shuttering shadow prisons. Vicki further writes, “in

When tragedy strikes your family, do you call for other families to suffer? That’s the apparent approach taken by survivors of a horrible mass murder.  You see, the alleged murderer in this case had also been convicted of a sexual offense.  The family has circulated a petition, with excerpts as follows: “We’re asking that a person CONVICTED of a sex