With Unity Comes Change
FAC is looking to connect with individuals currently on the registry who live with a serious physical or mental disability or have a cognitive impairment. More importantly, we are looking to connect with family members, friends, and caregivers of these individuals who can share the burdens these laws impose, not only on the registrant, but on themselves. How does your
Since this past March, Florida Action Committee members have been emailing all 160 Florida legislators, asking them to consider filing the following two bills: A Neurocognitive Impairment bill that would allow for dementia/brain injury that is medically documented to be considered in all aspects of the Florida criminal justice system, including probation and offender registrations, thereby preventing the inhumane treatment
A new law going into effect in West Virginia this week requires people on the sex offender registry to pay an annual fee of $125. The law, which can be found here, will hopefully be challenged. Since the registry is supposed to be non-punitive, it is questionable whether a fee imposed as part of a criminal sentence or as a
FOUR BILLS: One board member has a drafted bill, written by another board member, pertaining to people on the registry who are cognitively unable to fulfill the 60+ registry requirements, yet required to do so by statute. Next week she will be sharing it with a representative that said he is interested in seeing such a bill. Several FAC members
The National Association for Rational Sexual Offense Laws (of which FAC is the Florida affiliate) and OK Voices (the Oklahoma affiliate of NARSOL) has filed a civil rights lawsuit in the Northern District of Oklahoma challenging the Constitutionality of an Oklahoma Statute that requires the driver’s licenses of persons required to register as sexual offenders be branded with the marking