Author: FAC Contributor #3

The American Civil Liberties Union is challenging the state of Michigan over its handling of the state’s sex offender registry. In 2016, the 6th Circuit Court ruled that aspects of Michigan’s Sex Offender Registry Act, SORA, were unconstitutional. The court’s opinion specifically noted portions of the act which allowed the state to retroactively impose punishments on individuals without due process.

From Women Against Registry The Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM) ‘Families Rally for Justice Reform’ event began Tuesday at 9 AM with breakfast at the FAMM office in Washington, D.C.. Kevin Ring – President and the other officers are very dedicated to justice reform and sentencing reform while continuing to make the communities safe. Some of the family members who

On Wednesday, the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit handed down a horrible decision affirming a lower court’s decision that effectively allowed a city to evict people required to register, from their homes. In Vasquez v. Foxx, 17-1061 (7th Cir. 2018) two men required to register as sex offenders were required to comply with a law that prohibited

The FDLE has responded to our inquiry from May as to (a) what happens in emergency situations or when a registration office is not open, and (b) what is the definition of the term ‘day’, as it relates to the revision in the statute that requires IN PERSON notification of a change in permanent, temporary or transient residence. The response,

From the Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws: The federal judge to whom the IML lawsuit was assigned has canceled [JULY 9th] hearing on the government’s Motion to Dismiss the entire case. According to Judge John F. Walter, he will make a decision based solely upon the documents filed both in support of, and in opposition to, that motion. The

Over the past year or so we were warning our readers of a company based out of Texas targeting people required to register as Sex Offenders. A man by the name of John Fitzgerald Bordelon, operating a business called “ClearMyCase” was using several state’s sex offender registries to contact registrants, claiming they could help get them off the sex offender