Weekly Updates

Weekly Update #111 Dear Members and Advocates, The California Bill that we wrote about last week was signed off by Governor Newsom. That’s good news. What continues to boggle the mind is how two stories can present completely different perspectives on the same set of facts and how so many people will buy into (and I hate to use this

Weekly Update #109 Dear Members and Advocates, Something good was spun so horribly wrong that it’s worthy of being the first thing we mention in this week’s update. California State Senator Scott Wiener set out to eliminate a significant disparity in the state’s sex offender registration laws that discriminated against LGBTQ youth.  The way the law exists, a judge has

Weekly Update #107 Dear Members and Advocates, It’s so hard to explain something you don’t fully understand yourself. I’ll start with a basic fact: There’s no “Federal Registry.” When we go to re-register or report changes, we show up at our County Sheriff’s Office. That information gets entered into a database (registry) that’s maintained by the Florida Department of Law

Weekly Update #106 Dear Members and Advocates, It has been a disappointing week. Yesterday, Brevard County Commissioners voted in favor (only one Commissioner voted against) of amending their proximity ordinance to include private businesses. From watching the simulcast of the meeting, it appears passing the ordinance was a foregone conclusion, but nonetheless it was disappointing to watch. Our concern is

Weekly Update #105 Dear Members and Advocates, Before modern technology existed we had the public square. It was an open area, generally in the heart of a city, where people would gather to exchange information. If you couldn’t make it to the public square you would miss out on all the community discourse. Cutting you off from the public square

Weekly Update #104 Dear Members and Advocates, On Friday we posted something that received positive feedback so we’ll reference it here and encourage everyone to take a read through it when you have time. The post made me theorize about the Privileges and Immunities Clause of the Constitution (found at Article IV, Section 2), which states that “the citizens of

Weekly Update #102 Dear Members and Advocates, This past month we lost the last of the “Big Six”, when Representative John Lewis died. The Big Six were leaders of six civil rights organizations who helped organize the 1963 March on Washington. In learning more about the life of John Lewis and the assembling of  the Civil Rights Movement, I was

Weekly Update #101 Dear Members and Advocates, We start this week’s update with an apology to “Pariah.oo1″, who had posted a comment to our discussion on the proposed amendment to the Brevard Ordinance. The proposed amendment would allow private businesses to create 1000 foot buffer zones around themselves, thereby preventing someone on the registry from entering into the exclusion zone,

Weekly Update #99 Dear Members and Advocates, This week a “fire” erupted and we saw an example of why it is so important we stay organized and able to mobilize quickly. Brevard County is seeking to amend their proximity ordinance to allow private businesses to register themselves as “child oriented”, thereby establishing itself as a landmark around which a 1000

When a news story gets posted containing a one-sided perspective, misinformation or much of the fear mongering we have come to expect whenever a “sex offender” story comes out