Author: FAC Contributor #3

Sen. Lauren Book filed a new bill on Monday (https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/160/BillText/Filed/PDF) that would criminalize “knowingly selling, lending, giving away, distributing, transmitting, showing, or transmuting; offering to commit such actions; having in his or her possession, custody, or control with the intent to commit such actions; or advertising in any manner an obscene, child-like sex doll“. What’s disturbing is not the idea

The Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit reversed a lower court’s decision that found lifetime registration for sexual predators in Ohio unconstitutional. The Appellate court ruled that, “because Doe’s registration requirement stems from the determination of her likelihood of reoffending at the time of her classification hearing and is not dependent on her current dangerousness, she has no procedural

This afternoon the court issued it’s findings in the Miami-Dade Sex Offender Residency Restriction challenge and it is a loss. A copy of the document can be found here and comments will follow after it’s digested and we speak with the ACLU attorneys. Does v. Miami-Dade – Sorr – Order of Judge It was anticipated that whoever lost will appeal.

Dear Friends, Congress is on the verge of passing significant sentencing reform legislation, and now is the time to make your voice heard! While the First Step Act is far from perfect, it would provide relief to thousands of prisoners serving unjust sentences for crack cocaine and thousands more defendants sentenced every year for low-level drug offenses, firearms offenders currently

Paying to Be Punished: A Statutory Analysis of Sex Offender Registration Fees is a new article appearing in the Journal of Criminal Justice Ethics that identifies and quantifies the imposition of a registration fee on offenders who are legally compelled to pay these registration costs, regardless of whether they are still currently under community supervision. More than half of the

A recently released man is challenging Ohio’s sex offender parole law as unconstitutional because it forbids him from seeing his 14-year-old son without approval and supervision of his probation officer. In fact, he has only seen his son for 12 hours in the past year. He is not even permitted to possess a photograph of his son. He testified before