Author: FAC Contributor #3

In April, we wrote about an FAC member currently exiled from his home country because of International Megan’s Law. One of our members, who has a decades-old conviction, for which he got probation, left the country 17 years ago and hasn’t come back. He went on to live a good life in this other country, established a business, got married

FAC COMMENT: Gotta wonder how courts could argue that this is “non-punitive” when an individual gets a monetary judgment for being wrongly labeled? Would he have gotten six figures if the state wrongly marked him as a price club member? I think not! The county has agreed to settle a lawsuit involving a man who was wrongfully listed as a

On July 27, 2005, Miami-Dade County Commissioner Art Teele walked into the Miami Herald building asking to speak to reporter Jim DeFede, After a phone conversation with DeFede, Teele shot himself. Committed suicide right there in the lobby! Earlier that day, the Miami New Times posted a story about Teele, his pending criminal charges for corruption and some alleged connection

Although she’s running completely unopposed for Florida’s 32nd Senate District (Broward County), Lauren Book is campaigning as if she were an underdog. In the past couple months, residents of the 32nd District got two extra large, full color brochures from Lauren Book’s campaign. People in Broward have already gotten used to seeing her plastered on billboards along 595 and I-95

Yesterday, the US Department of Justice issued a press release announcing the arrest of more than 2300 suspected online child sex offenders during operation “Broken Heart”. According to the press release, “The operation targeted suspects who: (1) produce, distribute, receive and possess child pornography; (2) engage in online enticement of children for sexual purposes; (3) engage in the sex trafficking

From the National Post (Canada) Marni Soupcoff: Sex-offender registries may be doing more harm than good With little proof of effectiveness, it’s hard to see how much longer they will be considered acceptable — at least without considerable refinement A New Jersey Department of Corrections study found that the state’s sex-offender registry and warning system “cost millions of dollars and