Author: FAC Contributor #3

The opinion (Lindsey v Swearingen – Opinion), issued yesterday in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, held that Florida does not need to give Full Faith and Credit to an Oklahoma Order removing someone from the Oklahoma Registry, because the Oklahoma Order did not apply to the Florida Registry. The bad: This is another in a series of bad decisions

Guys, I can’t make this stuff up. Another Florida School Resource Officer (a police officer assigned to work in a school) is in trouble this week for a child sex crime. Just days after a school resource officer in Jacksonville was arrested, another officer in Altamonte Springs’ home was searched as part of a child pornography investigation. I literally had

When Beyer was 17, he made a fake account on Snapchat and started contacting girls about his same age. He was in high school at the time. The FBI became aware of his activity in June of 2021, probably because one of the girl’s parents found out what he was doing and brought her phone to the authorities. But the

A member just alerted us to a court decision out of New York that addresses the duration for registration of someone who moves to NY from another state. This member has been waiting ten years to get off the registry in another state so that he can move to NY and live with his fiancee free of registration obligations and

Every day we scan news headlines, appellate court decisions and legislative filings to learn about current events impacting people on the registry. During our daily perusal, we came across this article, which questioned whether persons forced to register as sex offenders should be barred from entering places which serve alcohol. The supposition for the story was that Brock Turner (a

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) gets about $40 million a year in federal funding. It spends at least a few of those bucks crafting unnecessary emails like the one I got last week with the subject line: “Are your kids safely back-to-schooling?” Not only is “back-to-schooling” not a verb, but also the question seems geared less