Author: FAC Contributor #3

This report updates and expands upon the Commission’s 2012 Report to the Congress: Federal Child Pornography Offenses. It provides the Commission’s most in-depth study of child pornography production offenses to date through an analysis of three primary factors that the Commission has identified as relevant to sentencing child pornography production offenders. Focusing on data related to child pornography production offenders’ proximity

Professor Ira Ellman and his wife, Tara researched the highly touted and often quoted, but untrue, high recidivism rate of 80% among those required to register. Professor Ellman will share the results of their research in ‘Frightening and High‘ as well as his newly released paper ‘When Animus Matters and Sex Offense Underreporting Does Not: The Sex Offender Registry Regime.’

There was a time where people used to get their news from the local paper. On their walk to work they would pick up the newspaper at the corner news stand and read about the world’s events on their bus to work. If a headline grabbed their attention, they would read the story. If it was of no interest they

U.S. Senator Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, introduced a bill on Wednesday that blocks sex offenders from immigrating to the United States, and deports those convicted of sexual offenses. The “BE GONE” Act, or the Better Enforcement of Grievous Offenses by un-Naturalized Emigrants Act – that would make “sexual assault and aggravated sexual violence” a disqualifying act for those seeking to immigrate to the U.S.—such

This is good news! The US Supreme Court has denied Certiorari (refused to take up) an appeal from the State of Louisiana to their State Supreme Court’s Court decision that upheld a lower Court’s ruling that branding the licenses of persons required to register with “SEX OFFENDER”. In refusing to hear the case, the SCOTUS is effectively ruling that the

We have received several requests for updates on the Out of State Challenge that we announced was filed this past summer. Unfortunately, the Plaintiff in that case was saddled with the Statute of Limitations issue that previously hung up other Plaintiffs in the same challenge. Specifically, he was added to the Florida registry more than 4 years ago, and therefore