Author: FAC Contributor #3

The coronavirus pandemic has led to an unprecedented shutdown of many American institutions, from professional sports to many government agencies, including the suspension of many non-essential law enforcement services from fingerprinting to vehicle registration. However, people required to register under the complex public sex offense registry scheme must still register in person. This puts the health of registrants, their families,

The Volusia County Jail is prohibiting in-person visitations for inmates, as many correctional facilities have due to the coronavirus pandemic. But one thing the Volusia County facility has limited that others in the area haven’t: The way inmates are able to communicate with their lawyers. Attorney Carlus Haynes said he has to pay to talk to his six clients at

While we never want a challenge to sex offender laws to be unsuccessful, we are relieved to see a case brought by Estes-Hightower in the Northern District of Florida was dismissed last week. We had previously written about this firm and their lawsuit, suggesting they did a huge disservice to registrants in the State of Florida (and Texas) by filing

An excellent decision came out of Florida’s Fourth Judicial Circuit (Nassau County) Friday afternoon finding their Sex Offender Residency Restriction (SORR) Unconstitutional as applied to the Defendant (who was charged with violating the County SORR) whose offense date was before the enactment of the SORR. You can read the decision here: State v Wright – Nassau County SORR Case The

Courtesy of law firm Carlton Fields, the following is a compiled list of lawsuits filed on behalf of inmates for conditions of confinement in light of the Coronavirus outbreak. Among those featured is Barnes v. Jeffreys, brought on behalf of inmates in Illinois who are required to register as sex offenders and continue to be confined in prison simply because

On the day the Florida Legislature voted on the budget, Florida had 390 positive cases of COVID-19 and eight deaths statewide. Rep. Dianne Hart, D-Tampa, a leader on prison issues, made a point before the vote to ask what was being done to address a potential outbreak of the virus in the state prison system. Inmates can’t even have hand