Author: FAC Contributor #3

The Chicago Sun Times, along with other media sites, are weighing in on the damage that Justice Kennedy caused in 2003 to hundreds of thousands of people forced to register.  The myth (the recidivism rates for people on the registry is frightening and high, possibly as high as 80%), has resulted in every state making policies NOT based on research.

This Sunday marks the 20th anniversary of Smith v. Doe, a Supreme Court decision that said Alaska’s sex offense registry was preventive, not punitive. Justice Anthony Kennedy said that the registry made sense as a public safety measure.  He also said “the risk of recidivism passed by ‘sex offenders” is ‘frightening and high,’ as high as 80%”.  Justice Kennedy’s opinion

In a central Californian prison, a convicted serial killer was placed in a cell with an inmate who had sexually assaulted a child. The serial killer pled guilty to killing five men and injuring seven others.  Before that, he killed his aunt and uncle and then began attacking people in two cities by bludgeoning his victims with bolt cutters and

A child has gone missing in Hernando County, Florida, after the mother fell asleep. Sheriff Nienhuis said that his deputies visited “sex offenders” in the area and did not find any sign of the child.  Law enforcement never does, but for some reason they feel this makes their efforts look good in the eye of the public. This Sheriff Nienhuis

While we are called the United States of America, when it comes to the voting rights of people who have been incarcerated, we are anything but united. Florida Governor DeSantis, along with funding from the legislature, created Florida’s new Office of Election Crimes and Integrity, while 21 other states automatically restore voting rights after release from prison. Washington state passed

According to thecrimereport.org, Aya Gruber, a law professor at the University of Colorado, asks readers to take a second look at how we treat sex crimes. Gruber feels that “treating sex crimes differently than other crimes is not natural or neutral but rather has a political history that should be examined.” “I’m kind of saying to people, you think that