Author: FAC Contributor #10

Thanks to two county coordinators in Hernando County, some improvements were made to the ordinance that was passed this past January.  But unfortunately, the sheriff’s office was still using the originally-passed ordinance that did not contain the new language for the revised ordinance passed in July. Another member in Hernando County set out to right this wrong once he saw

By Sandy Rozek First published at NARSOL.org “Derek Lawson, registered in Arizona as a sexual offender due to a conviction in 1984 in California, is required by law to register any address where he stays three or more days a month. “He stayed at the home of Peoria, Arizona’s City Council’s deputy chief, Denette Dunn, ‘intermittently throughout the past year.’

Because of some confusion for Hernando County’s citizens, we are sharing the link to the Approved Ordinance No. 2023-08. The language has been removed pertaining to the posting of Halloween signs.

The recently-released report “Recidivism Among Sex Offenders in Massachusetts & Maine” shows how statistics can be slanted to make people believe whatever you want them to believe. According to themainewire.com, “The report was funded by a Bureau of Justice Statistics grant, in order to provide policy makers with empirical data on a critical issue of public safety – sex crimes

By Larry of NARSOL On June 14, 2023, a court decided the question of whether a “retroactive application of the Sexual or Violent Offender Registration Act violated the prohibition against ex post facto punishment in Article II, Section 31 of the Montana Constitution.” Larry says that “states appear to be unable to help themselves, continually piling on more requirements that

A bit of good news that came out recently was in The University of Chicago Press Journals, August 18, 2023.  In the published study by Patrick Lussier, Evan McCuish, and Elizabeth L. Jeglic, “Against All Odds: The Unexplained Sexual Recidivism Drop in the United States and Canada,” the abstract includes: “Sexual recidivism rates reported in American studies have been low and