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A couple of years ago, Fort Lauderdale’s sex offender residency restriction (SORR) was declared unconstitutional. In response, the Ft. Lauderdale City Commissioners voted to lessen their SORR to try and make it pass constitutional muster. Despite warnings that the new ordinance still didn’t go far enough to have an impact, the new SORR was enacted. Now, one year later, a

Charles R Hobbs Jr. is the first Miami-Dade jail inmate to die from the virus. He was in jail awaiting trial after being arrested for failure to register as a sex offender. The underlying conviction for which he was registered was from 1998. He committed no other sexual offenses in the more than 20 years since. According to his failure

A lawsuit has been filed against Weld County Sheriff Steve Reams after a 78 year-old man who was jailed in March for failure to register as a sex offender contracted Coronavirus and died from it right after being released. Charles Peterson was jailed on March 11th for failure to register as a sex offender. After numerous requests to release him,

The report empirically explores three potential relationships that may exist: Deterrent: As the prison length increases, the likelihood of recidivism decreases. Criminogenic: As the prison length increases, the likelihood of recidivism increases. No Effect: No statistically significant relationship between prison length and recidivism is identified. Findings In each model, prison sentences of longer than 10 years (120 months) had a deterrent effect.

The Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws (ACSOL) filed a lawsuit today in a federal district court challenging in-person registration requirements of both the City of Fresno and the County of Fresno. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California. SOURCE Complaint – CONFORMED – 28 April 2020 Complaint – Exhibit A – 28 April

The Coronavirus pandemic is a global emergency. People confined against their will in high concentrations at close proximity in notoriously overcrowded facilities are extremely vulnerable to this invisible, quickly spreading threat. Civil rights and human rights organizations have called on officials to release persons from the traditional legal system but have overlooked people confined to “Civil” facilities “for treatment” after