Author: FAC Contributor #3

This morning the 11th Circuit will hold oral arguments in our case challenging Miami-Dade County’s sex offender residence restriction. Daniel Tilley, from the ACLU will be doing the argument on behalf of the individuals who are legislated into homelessness by the Miami-Dade Ordinance named after Lauren Book. The case is: 19-10254 John Doe #6, et al., Appellants v. Miami-Dade County Please

It’s a bit off-topic but in a decision released by the Supreme Court of the United States today (Lomax v. Ortiz-Marquez) the court limited a pro se prisoner’s ability to bring lawsuits if they have previously had cases dismissed. Not quite sure how we feel about this one. On one hand anything that limits an individual’s access to the courts

the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has now published names and photographs of some convicted sex offenders on the Nigeria Sex Offender Register. The DG of NAPTIP, Dame Julie Okah-Donli, shared a list over the weekend via Twitter. She said the agency is determined to start naming and shaming all sex offenders, and more names

Florida really loves to keep people on it’s sex offender registry and locked up. There are nearly 80 thousand people on Florida’s sex offender registry but fewer than 30 thousand are actually in the community. Of those in the community, we have so many who are elderly or too physically impaired to be a danger to anyone, yet we still

Michigan lawmakers are debating how to overhaul the state’s sex offender registry after a federal appeals court ruled sections of the law are unconstitutional, but Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is contending the proposed fixes don’t repair the law’s flaws. As Democratic and Republican elected officials wrestle over the best solution to a highly charged issue, a federal judge has freed

An Ocala man was arrested Monday after he showed up a day late to update his registration as a sex offender. Shaun David Killie, 33, of 4055 NW 63rd St., was supposed to re-register during the month of May. He was reminded when he updated his vehicle information in December 2019 and again in February, according to the Marion County