Author: FAC Contributor #3

20 years after Charles Jones’ underlying offense, he was arrested for a failure to register. While jailed in Brevard County he died after repeated pleas for medical attention went ignored. Now, he paid dearly for a crime committed decades ago.

A win in Illinois! A Court last week found that a law that prevented more than one person required to register from living at the same address cannot stand as it is being applied by the defendants (Illinois Department of Corrections) against persons required to register. The statute precludes convicted sex offenders on mandatory supervised release from living “at the

I’ll end this week by sharing a bit of ridiculousness that is being thrown around the water cooler. I’ve said this before, but it seems like hysterical people and political opportunists are running out of ideas for “sex offender laws” and really grasping at straws sometimes. I can understand a person required to be registered as sex offender prevented from

Let’s face it, no matter where someone on the registry lives, so long as their name and picture are on the list, neighbors will complain. They don’t want registrants living too close to here or or too close to there, not in this area nor that one, not near this group, nor near that group. As communities try to outdo

A man is taking Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen to federal court Tuesday for requiring people to register as sex offenders for past sodomy convictions. XXXXX XXXXX, 45, was convicted when he was 19 years old under an Idaho law that criminalized sex acts associated with homosexuality, according to the lawsuit he filed in December in U.S. District Court for

ActionNewsJax, just ran a story titled, “Homeless sex offenders become growing Florida problem”. Their story (which can be seen below) implies that registrants are somehow intentionally registering themselves as transient in order to evade detection, but that is absolutely NOT the case! The growing number of transient registrants is the unintended consequence of Sex Offender Residency Restrictions (SORRs) enacted in