Author: FAC Contributor #3

Both the boys admit they did it. Horsing around, two New Jersey 14-year-olds pulled down their pants and sat on the faces of two 12-year-old boys. As one of them later explained, “I thought it was funny and I was trying to get my friends to laugh.” For that act, he and his buddy are on the sex offender registry

The Eleventh Circuit Federal Appellate Court (our circuit), reversed the conviction of a man who had been charged (and convicted) of distribution of child pornography, but upheld his possession count. The Defendant had been viewing child pornography he had downloaded from a peer-to-peer network, for a period of approximately eleven months before agents raided his home and confiscated his computer.

Connecticut for One Standard Of Justice an organization, who like FAC, is a volunteer-based civil rights organization committed to ensuring that persons accused or convicted of sex offenses are treated constitutionally and fairly by the state, filed a lawsuit last week challenging the proximity ordinances in Windsor Locks, Connecticut. The banishment zones, which prevent those on the registry from being present

On Friday, the Vermont Supreme Court decided that the State cannot uniformly declare pornography off-limits to sex offenders. It CAN, as a condition of probation (and even then, only under conditions that are deemed specifically appropriate to the individual offender). It CANNOT prevent sex offenders who are not on probation from viewing legal pornography. The decision can be found here:

The FBI, which at one point seized and operated one of the largest sites for distribution of Child Porn, Playpen (see here), has seized Backpage.com, the classifieds site that purportedly facilitated sex trafficking and pornography. The CEO of Backpage was also recently arrested. More details are supposed to come shortly, the FBI reports, according to a post on backpage.com which

The Illinois Supreme Court issued a horrible opinion, upholding the ban on predators and “child sex offenders” from parks. You can read the full opinion here: https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/SexOffendersIL.pdf The crux of the opinion is that the state’s ban on sex offenders from parks (which an appellate court previously found unconstitutional) was found to be constitutional and the same “frightening and high”