Weekly Updates

Weekly Update 2017-10-30 Dear Members and Advocates, There is a lot going on and a lot of information we are anxiously waiting to receive. First, this past Thursday, oral arguments on the Motions for Summary Judgment took place in the Internet Identifier lawsuit. Attorneys for the Florida Justice Institute, who are co-counsel with Weitzner & Jonas, travelled to Tallahassee for

Weekly Update 2017-10-17 Dear Members and Advocates, An interesting thing happened this past week. Apparently, we got sued for “defamation” by ClearMyCase.com. As much as we intend to write about the suit right now, is posted to: https://floridaactioncommittee.org/clearmycase-warning-registrants/. The only thing to add is that last week, of his own volition, the Judge found the complaint deficient and ordered ClearMyCase

Weekly Update 2017-10-10 Dear Members and Advocates, It’s that time of year again. With Halloween approaching, you’ll begin to see news reports popping up with “keeping your kids safe from sex offenders” stories. Patch.com has already started running their “[CITY NAME] Halloween Sex Offender Safety Map” pages. Although the word “safety” appears in the title, these stories and sites have

Weekly Update 2017-10-03 Dear Members and Advocates, Whatever could have taken place this past week was immediately overshadowed by the mass shooting that took place Sunday night in Las Vegas. The senseless tragedy that, as of the time of this writing, has taken almost 60 lives puts everything into perspective. As bad as things may ever become, we live to

Weekly Update 2017-09-26 Dear Members and Advocates: Two significant events took place yesterday. First; the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) re-convened to decide which cases they would choose to hear during the upcoming session. Among them, a couple of sex offender cases. Second; the sentencing of former US Congressman, Anthony Weiner, for a sexting a minor. We will

Weekly Update 2017-09-19 Dear Members and Advocates, Last week, two short-form versions of David Feige’s documentary, Untouchable, were released. One version highlighting the story of an individual on the registry who probably doesn’t deserve to be there for life – intended to humanize those behind the label and remind the public that “sex offenders” are not all beady-eyed dirty old

Weekly Update 2017-09-12 Dear Members and Advocates, It’s difficult to compose a professional member communication when I am so angry and frustrated. This week we saw some of the most heinous examples of hatred and inhumanity this writer has experienced in the more-than-decade I have been dealing with this registry. In the face of a natural disaster that was reported

Weekly Update 2017-09-05 Dear Members and Advocates, There is a lot to update this week, so we will get right to it… Two MAJOR decisions came out within the past week. In Colorado, a federal Judge not only declared the Colorado Sex Offender Registration Act unconstitutional, but went much further and declared it was “Cruel and Unusual Punishment”.  In Indiana,

Weekly Update 2017-08-29 Dear Members and Advocates, We begin this week with an important CALL TO ACTION. We are encouraging all members to make their voices heard by contacting the County Commissioners in Miami-Dade County and encouraging them to repeal the 2500-foot sex offender residency restriction, which is causing over two hundred-fifty registrants to live homeless at the corner of

Weekly Update 2017-08-22 Dear Members and Advocates, This week you get another update about Ron and Lauren Book. Well, not exactly… it’s an update on the homeless situation we’ve been reporting on, but we need to provide some history first. A dozen years ago, lobbyist Ron Book, fought for a law that established a sex offender “exclusion zone”. Essentially a