Weekly Updates

Weekly Update #90 Dear Members and Advocates, It is important that everyone remembers to perform your in-person registration, even during the period of pandemic, even if you are sick, even if your registration office is closed. If not, you can be arrested. If your registration office is closed, find a way to travel to another county and perform your registration

Weekly Update #89 Dear Members and Advocates, This past weekend, James Fairbanks shot 64-year-old Mattieo Condoluci. His motive, according to a confession email sent to the police; “he was listed on Nebraska’s sex offender registry”. Over the past few years there have been numerous murders of people on the registry by people who did not know them, but hunted them

Weekly Update #88 Dear Members and Advocates, I read something on Twitter that resonated. The tweet said, “right now we live in an infinite present. No future plans, no anticipation… It’s an endless today, never tomorrow.” It was written in relation to the Coronavirus shut down and how we are all living without knowing if or when things will fully

Weekly Update #86 Dear Members and Advocates, As I scan headlines and court dockets daily looking for news to post to our website, I continue to be amazed that Jeffrey Epstein remains in the headlines as one of the leading topics when searching for keywords relevant to our cause. This past week, it’s for his donations to Harvard University. The

Weekly Update #85 Dear Members and Advocates, Everything bad is good for something. Sometimes it’s difficult to see the validity of this old proverb, but it’s true. As we continue to fight what appears to be an unsuccessful battle convincing the Governor to suspend in person registration during this pandemic, we are beginning to envision a positive outcome from this

Weekly Update #84 Dear Members and Advocates, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” This famous quote comes from the opening paragraph of the Dickens’ novel, ‘A Tale Of Two Cities’. It is said to mean that on one hand it was a time of suffering and despair and on the other hand it was

Weekly Update #83 Dear Members and Advocates, We dedicate this week’s update to Alan Pollock. We don’t know Alan, he wasn’t a member, and prior to yesterday we never heard of him. He was one of us though. He was a person forced to register as a sex offender. In June of 1995 Alan was convicted in Orange County, FL

Weekly Update #81 Dear Members and Advocates, There has been a lot going on. As I take a few moments to prepare an update for you, I realize that things have been so hectic lately that we neglected to send one last week. Sorry about that. In between adjusting our personal lives to accommodate stay-in-place orders, setting up to work

Weekly Update #80 Dear Members and Advocates, Two words I’ve heard a lot this week have been “panic” and “uncertainty”. It has been interesting to watch how much chaos has emerged from this “panic” and “uncertainty”. Financial markets have collapsed, families scramble to find alternative arrangements to accommodate school closures, people are having so much difficulty finding basic amenities. There

Weekly Update #78 Dear Members and Advocates, This week’s update comes to you early because there are two points of clarification that we felt were important to make as quickly as possible. During our monthly member call last month the topic was ‘removal from the Florida registry’ and we were talking about (a) removal under the Romeo and Juliet statute