Author: FAC Contributor #3

[FAC NOTE: Since we posted Part I, we are including part II, though this part goes off on a bit of a tangent and the concept of the registry being tantamount to a genocide may be offensive to some of our members. Below are cut and pasted excerpts of what I believe are relevant sections of the article we wanted

A new and potentially important bill was filed last week in the Florida House of Representatives. House Bill 1055, sponsored by Rep. Chuck Brannon III proposes the following changes to Florida’s registration laws: Provide financial support to Law Enforcement to find missing and exploited children (WE SUPPORT) Afford reporting of vehicle information through the online portal (WHILE WE STILL STRONGLY

Much appreciation to the Brennan Center, Ruth Sangree and Professor Rachel Barkow for including the concept of modifying the “sex offender” label in their piece on ending mass incarceration! Below is the relevant excerpt: “Too often laws group together people of wildly different levels of culpability. A category like “sex offender” includes violent rapists and teens who sext each other.

At least 27 Alabama prisoners died in 2019 as a result of homicide, drug overdoses or suicides, according to information gathered from ADOC, news accounts and tips reporters receive from other inmates and family members of the deceased inmates. The Alabama Department of Corrections commissioner, Jeff Dunn, announced the formation of an internal task force to investigate the recent inmate

Tennessee Republican Bruce Griffey introduced a bill that would require anyone convicted of a sexual offense against a child under the age of 13 to be chemically castrated, Under the language of the bill, which is nearly identical to that of a similar law approved last year in Alabama, those sentenced for the crime would undergo a chemical injection that

From The Appeal: In May 2016, a local Fox station in Wisconsin reported a remarkable story. That March, a man who had served 11 years on second-degree child sexual assault had been released from prison. The city of Waukesha had a rule forbidding those convicted of a sex crime against someone under age 18 from living within 1,500 feet of