Author: FAC Contributor #3

Here’s the conclusion from the Michigan Attorney General: “Michigan’s Sex Offender Registry Act, taken as a whole, imposes burdens that are so punitive in their effect that they negate the State’s public safety justifications. Accordingly, Amicus Curiae Attorney General Dana Nessel asks this Court to hold that SORA is punishment and its retroactive application violates the Ex Post Facto Clauses

Just goes to show that ANYONE can be a sex offender. Teachers, coaches, clergy and law enforcement officers! What’s confusing is the judge cited his “work as a federal marshal” as a mitigating factor. Shouldn’t the fact that he’s been in a position of authority be an aggrevating factor?

Not everyone supports johns registries, and a variety of groups say prostitution and human trafficking are very different crimes and should not be confused. They say prostitution is consensual and voluntary, and human trafficking is not. Most people arrested in prostitution operations are lonely men who went to a massage parlor or hired an escort from an online site, says

Attorneys for the plaintiffs in the Ex Post Facto Plus case, yesterday filed a response to the State’s Motion to Dismiss. You can (and should) read the response here: Does v. Swearingen – Response to Mot to Dismiss 01302020 As usual, Val Jonas and Todd Scher have done an amazing job on behalf of the Does and the entire registrant

Today, a Kane County Illinois judge denied a temporary restraining order against the city of Aurora’s eviction of 18 sex offenders from the Wayside Cross Ministries halfway house. The City claimed they can’t live there because it is less than 500 feet from a city playground and park. Mark Weinberg, one of the attorneys representing the men said that he

Iowa officials have decided to release a convicted child molester from incarceration due to the belief that a recent sex change lowered the offender’s testosterone level making the felon less likely to re-offend. The state is now arguing that Smith’s lower testosterone level as a result of hormone treatment that Smith began in 2017 lowers the likelihood that Smith will