Author: FAC Contributor #3

If you regularly read our weekly updates you might remember one from a couple months ago, in which we wrote about a oral arguments in a case having nothing to do with Sex Offender laws, but still critically important for those on the registry because it dealt with the 4th Amendment (searches and seizures). The case was Caniglia v. Strom

Troopers responded to the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in the town of Smyrna at about 8:13 a.m. on Monday, police said. Authorities determined that Cameron killed Philip Langell, 69, who was serving a 20-year sentence for rape in the first degree against a victim under 12 years of age. Officers did not reveal the alleged motive. Langell died at

From a member in Polk: Polk County has changed their registration location without telling anyone. I went to the old office to update vehicle registration and found it closed with a sign on the door. The new location, 7101 Decastro Road, Winter Haven, Fl, 33880, is hard to get to. Other registrants were complaining that there’s no close bus stop,

A Montana man who sued the state in order to be taken off its sex offender registry over a past sodomy arrest has won the right to be removed from the list, Boise State Public Radio reports. Randall Menges was arrested in Idaho in 1994 shortly after his 18th birthday after police say they caught him having sex with two

Wheatland Police say they found 55-year-old Ralph Mendez shot inside his home. Those who lived near Mendez describe him as a good neighbor. “He has helped all the elderly people on this street,” said Kesterson. Police audio revealed Banks called dispatch and said he “just shot somebody dead.”We don’t think it was a random act,” said Sylvester. “We believe that

A Senate committee today approved legislation authored by Senate President Steve Sweeney, Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg and Senator Joe Vitale that would reform the board and prohibit the licensing of any health care worker convicted of a sex offense. The bill, S-3494, would  ban anyone convicted of a felony sexual offense from being licensed as a health care professional.