Author: FAC Contributor #3

Some people call James Fairbanks (“Omaha police arrest man in sex offender’s death,” March 20) a hero because he murdered a registered person in cold blood. There is nothing heroic about premeditated murder. Fairbanks used information from the Sex Offense Registry and a Facebook  group to help plan his crime and broke into the victim’s home with the intent to

The American Civil Liberties Union and Southern Poverty Law Center won an important legal battle in a Florida Federal Court yesterday. As Politico reported, “U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle declared key portions of the state’s felon voting law unconstitutional, ordering the state to put in place a new process that would help people register to vote in the state. Throughout

We are starting this week with some incredible news that we hope will inspire you. Guy Hamilton-Smith Passed the Bar Exam!!! For those who don’t know, I’ll back up a few steps… Like many of you reading this, Guy is required to register as a sex offender. More than a dozen years ago, when he was 22, he was convicted

The Dobbs Wire:  A rare event about the sex offense registry – it’s purpose and effectiveness, whether there’s a need, and if it should it dismantled!  Presenters:  Miriam Aukerman is one of the country’s most talented litigators against sex offense registration laws, co-counsel on a landmark 6th Circuit case (Does v. Snyder) and now fighting tenaciously to get that decision

“It’s unconscionable that they would think it would be okay to go and murder somebody because they’re on a registry,” said Vicki Henry, President of Women Against Registry. Henry’s organization calls on state lawmakers to make the sex offender registry private. Henry believes the registry puts sex offenders, like Condoluci, in danger. “The registry just does not help to protect

We just received an alert that the case filed by the Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws (ACSOL) to challenge IN PERSON registration laws in California has been denied. That notwithstanding, the reason for the denial appears to be because the Governor issued an executive order there, that avoided the in-person contact. The case notes state, “The petition for writ