Author: FAC Contributor #3

Sadly, the homeless registrants in Miami-Dade lost their appeal to the 11th Circuit in a decision returned today. The loss was on a technicality – whether the suit can be construed as an “as applied” challenge vs. a “facial challenge”. The 11th circuit’s decision was that the plaintiffs didn’t bring their case “as applied” to the John Doe plaintiffs from

“U.S. Marshals Find 39 Missing Children in Georgia During ‘Operation Not Forgotten,’” proclaimed the government’s official press release. Federal agents and local law enforcement, it said, had rescued 26 children, “safely located” 13 more and arrested nine perpetrators, some of whom were charged with sex trafficking. The facts of the operation weren’t clear (what does “safely located” mean, exactly?), but

Two weeks ago, NPR ran a print and audio story about people with past sex offense convictions that was so poorly researched and interrogated that I felt compelled to write a lengthy response to the article’s many problems. You can read that article (which contains a link to her reporting) here. I had reached out (politely) on Twitter to ask

A new Study by Danielle Arlanda Harris and Jill Levenson finds that our current practices likely and paradoxically increase risk for reoffending by producing traumatic stress that leads to emotional dysregulation. In recent years, there has been a rapid expansion of increasingly restrictive laws managing the post release behavior and movement of individuals convicted of sexual offenses. In the US,

A clerical error kept a man (convicted as a child) on the sex offender registry for years after he should have been removed. Watch the emotion as he describes how his life has been and the years he has lost living with the stigma of registration.  

[FAC NOTE: Yesterday’s Tampa Bay Times ran a story that sent chills down my spine. Having experience with the registry, I know what it’s like to live with a microscope up my ass, but having a mainstream news outlet publish the details of a police program designed to harass and entrap others feels almost vindicating. I’ve been describing this exact