Author: FAC Contributor #3

In “A Report on the High Cost of Sex Offender Incarceration” by Elizabeth J. Letourneau and Travis W. M Roberts, a research paper published with their colleagues at the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the “focus was on the cost of incarcerating adults convicted of sex crimes against children in the United States.” Their study found that the

According to Reuters, a class action lawsuit has been filed against Amazon.com Inc and a background check provider, Accurate Background Inc, claiming they illegally used a California sex offender website to conduct background checks on job applicants. “Megan’s Law prohibits employers from denying jobs to applicants because their names appear on the website unless they do so to protect a

SMART (Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking) commissioned a research brief based on fallacies, doing its best to dismiss the research that casts doubt on various aspects of the sex offense registries. This research brief has ignored some of the most compelling research that has come out in the past decade, with one being the 2021

Finally, there is a lawmaker in Louisiana who is looking for ways to prevent sex crimes against children rather than wait for the crime to occur and then incarcerate, incarcerate, and incarcerate.  A lawmaker is actually thinking of being proactive rather than reactive. But her decision was only made after her horrible bill of using surgical castration failed.  It faced

The Jacksonville, Florida, New4JAX I-TEAM found that most of these 22 people registered soon after Amendment 4 passed, an amendment that restored voting rights for some people with a past felony. Blair Bowie, senior legal counsel at the Campaign Legal Center in Washington, D.C., said, “Confusion around whose voting rights have been restored and whose haven’t been is absolutely rampant.”

We are all familiar with Governor DeSantis’ press conference in Fort Lauderdale on August 18, 2022, when he announced the arrest of 20 people on charges of voting illegally.  These 20 people had been convicted of murder or a felony sexual offense. The state had cleared these 20 individuals to join the voter rolls, and all were issued voter ID