Author: FAC Contributor #3

Sad news of a person convicted of a sexual offense being killed by a cellmate this week. People incarcerated on sexual offenses are often the targets of vigilantes. Some hate groups assign “points” to members that attack a registrant. The inmate killed inside his Duval County Jail cell Tuesday was drowned in his jail cell toilet in addition to being

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), established by the Trafficking in Persons (Prohibition) Enforcement and Administration Act 2003, by the Federal Government of Nigeria has announced that it will launch a sex offender register to “name and shame rapists and offenders of other forms of violence against persons” Director General of NAPTIP, Julie Okah, made

Yesterday, NARSOL and John Doe Plaintiffs got a victory against the State of North Carolina, which sought to dismiss a lawsuit brought to challenge the constitutionality of the North Carolina Registry. “The Court concludes that Plaintiffs have alleged a plausible claim that the challenged provisions of the registry law are so punitive in effect to violate the Ex Post Facto

Earlier this year, LifeWay reported that 16,000 congregations and other church organizations ran background checks on men and women it hired through a service called backgroundchecks.com. (The Southern Baptist Convention has so far resisted calls to set up a database of its own, saying the national registry was more dependable.) Other denominations are also increasingly using searchable databases on prospective

The Daily Beast featured a column titled “A Tale of Two Jeffreys“, describing the remarkably different experiences of Jeffrey Epstein from Jeffrey Cole. While both are named Jeffrey and both are labeled “sex offenders”, that’s where the similarities end. We don’t need to re-hash Epstein, but Cole, the story describes, “was convicted in Ohio of a misdemeanor charge of voyeurism

When it comes to large, overlapping exclusion zones and limited housing availability for persons required to register as sex offenders, an inch is as good (or bad) as a mile. In most Jurisdictions, the measurement of an exclusion zone begins at the closest property lines of each of the two properties and in a straight line “as the crow flies”.