Author: FAC Contributor #3

Thanks to CAUTIONCLICK and Bill Dobbs for making sure we knew about this: On September 24, 2020, Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued an Order certifying a nationwide class of people incarcerated in state and federal prisons, and granting the plaintiffs’ motion for preliminary injunction requiring the U.S. Department of

I have been writing of the successes NARSOL has been achieving with their letters/emails to Patch.com.  After NARSOL’s press release signed by over 200 researchers, academics, treatment providers, including ATSA, and many others (FAC included), some states have disassociated from the Patch maps and articles from Halloween.  Connecticut and Massachusetts are still with them, but the word Halloween can no

Three individuals formerly convicted of sex offenses are challenging their continued confinement in a “residential treatment facility” (a prison-like confinement) because they could not find housing that was compliant with the state’s 1000 foot residency restrictions. From the Court’s summary of the case: The three challenge their indefinite detention in prison or prison-based residential treatment facilities (RTFs) after their prison

Every year in the run-up to Halloween, Patch publishes maps showing the homes of “registered sex offenders” in various cities. Ostensibly, this information is aimed at helping parents who worry that their children might be molested while trick-or-treating. But research shows that such fears have no basis in reality, and these stories—like the warning signs and restrictions imposed by local

Reentry task forces for Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach Counties submitted a Report and Recommendation to all Florida Senators and Representatives, urging them to create a law that would preempt the patchwork of municipal sex offender residency restrictions that create a homeless problem in Southeast Florida. While Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach have 28% of the State of Florida’s registrant

A Nebraska Judge will soon decide whether a homeowners association can restrict someone registered as a sex offender from its community. The Wildwood Estates Homeowners Association in Gage County, Nebraska, is seeking a temporary injunction to remove a registered sex offender from residing in its part of town. The association is arguing that it’s restrictive covenants specifically exclude people required