Author: FAC Contributor #3

The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that inmates who have been convicted of nonviolent sex crimes may be eligible for early parole consideration as part of a ballot measure that nearly two-thirds of voters approved of four years ago. “The initiative’s language provides no indication that the voters intended to allow the (Corrections) Department to create a wholesale exclusion from

Our apologies: a member pointed out the following bill was intended to circumvent a Florida Appellate District Court opinion that someone’s obligation to register does not begin until they have paid off all fines (see: State of Florida vs. Ray La Vel James, Fla. 2nd DCA 2020, Case No. 2D18-2552 (Opinion Filed April 15, 2020)) Florida Senate Bill 162, sponsored

This is something we wrote about earlier and has been a concern. The Lockport Central School District of NY had installed an “AEGIS facial recognition system” consisting of cameras placed throughout schools in the District. They claimed that the system would be used to identify sex offenders and other “unauthorized” people. Advocacy groups and civil rights organizations pushed back and

The women’s prison in Ocala – the Lowell Correctional Institution – has a long standing accusation of abuse of the women incarcerated there and a recent report by the United State Department of Justice is adding flames to the fire.  This new report is claiming that the conditions at Lowell Correctional Institution violate the constitution. The Civil Rights Division of

Congress passed a new bill yesterday that is primarily focused upon COVID issues. Hidden in that legislation, which totals more than $900 billion, is about $200 million for the management of individuals required to register as sex offenders. The largest amount of funding for the management of registrants is $179 million for expenses related to “community supervision and sex offender