Author: FAC Contributor #3

It was one of the funniest episodes of Sasha Baron Cohen’s Showtime Series, “Who is America”. Cohen, disguised as Israeli “Colonel Erran Morad”, interviews former Alabama Senate Candidate Roy Moore. During the interview he shows Moore a device purportedly used by the Israeli military to detect pedophiles. Whenever the device goes near Moore it goes off! The gag wasn’t so

A Derby, KS man is on a mission to block a former sex offender from attending church. According to the Derby Informer, Joshua Kippenberger, is trying to get a church parishioner banned from St. Mary Catholic Church in Derby, because he is on the sex offender registry. The church, which has arranged for the man to be chaperoned and sit in

Ben McJunkin, Univ. of Michigan Fellow and J.J. Prescott, Univ, of Michigan Professor of Law and recognized expert on sex offender registration, put out a new article, “Fourth Amendment Constraints on the Technological Monitoring of Convicted Sex Offenders” The article weighs the balance between the government’s interest in monitoring sex offenders and the often disproportionately invasive and intrusive technology used

SOURCE In a clash that has surfaced in federal courthouses across the country and a recent Houston case, a collection of judges have held it is their duty to set conditions of release for accused sex offenders despite a strict law that limits their discretion. The constitutional conflict hinges on whether judges or lawmakers should decide how these defendants live

The Second District Court of Appeals affirmed the termination of parental rights of a father over his own children. The man is currently incarcerated (he was sentenced to 5 years) and is designated a sexual predator. Nothing in the record indicated that he abused his daughter, but he was convicted of “attempted sexual battery of a minor child over whom

I was shocked by a statistic I heard for the first time at the NACDL conference last month. The United States spends three times more money to incarcerate its citizens than it does on K-12 Education! That’s horrible! Not only does it show how grossly disproportionate our country’s priorities are, but it helps explain why we have such a high