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The Florida Action Committee, Inc. has initiated a Complaint against the United States through the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. The Complaint alleges the public sex offender registry constitutes cruel and degrading treatment in violation of Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Article 7 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. A

According to ACSOL, Frank is off life support and doing better! ACSOL leader Frank Lindsay has been placed on life support after being diagnosed with COVID. He was hospitalized on Tuesday after complaining that he was experiencing trouble breathing. “Please include Frank and his family in your thoughts and prayers,” asked ACSOL Executive Director Janice Bellucci. “It is possible although

Thanks to Kyle M: The time has come! The Gainesville City Commissioners will be meeting this Thursday November 17, 2022, for the second reading of the amended ordinance. Please click the link below to leave a public comment in support of the amendment. The agenda item number is N.2. Click the paperclip icon. The city mayor has indicated that there

Please reply with your response and the County (Florida only) in which this applies. When you report to the DHSMV (Driver’s license office) to notify of temporary (3 days in the aggregate) or permanent (3 consecutive days) address changes within Florida, (1) Do they require you pay a fee to report this information? (2) Do they require you obtain a

The state of Idaho settled an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) lawsuit Thursday, challenging the state’s “Crime Against Nature” law that has historically been used to condemn and punish LGBT+ people,”. Last year a federal judge ruled the registration was unconstitutional and required the state to remove two of the three men from the registry. After the ruling, the state

They came with cutesy names, such as “Operation Boo” or “Operation Watchful Eye”. They are sex offender compliance checks and multiple times per year, particularly around Halloween, law enforcement officers, usually in teams of half a dozen officers from different agencies including federal marshals, will pull up in front of the homes of persons forced to register as sex offenders,

A 10-year-old boy was suspended from his Florida elementary school and faces a charge of misdemeanor battery after he was accused of inappropriately touching a school counselor during a hug, an allegation his family denies. The counselor at Holly Hill School in Volusia County alleged that she was visiting a classroom on Oct. 24 to discuss something when the fourth-grader

Jefferson County Circuit Judge Shanta’ Owens ruled last month that the two men were wrongfully convicted of rape in 1993, a crime the two men always declared they did not commit. A crime for which each served two decades in prison. Owens noted: “The report revealed additional blood evidence that was present at the scene and never tested.”  “The evidence

Dr Chrysanthi Leon and Maggie Buckridge are interviewing formerly incarcerated folks about their re-entry experiences with religious communities. They are especially interested in learning about what religious communities provide for people on the sex offender registry. In addition to speaking with those who found a church or another place of worship to join, they are also interviewing people who wanted to join

The recent Supreme Court decision in which it was declared unconstitutional to order all sex offenders onto a national registry upon conviction highlights a problem, not with the registry itself, but with the ever-widening scope of what constitutes a sex crime. It’s a sign that Parliament should return to deciding the rules governing sexual offences in Canada rather than leaving