Author: FAC Contributor #3

By Sandy Rozek, Communications Director for NARSOL Jacob Wetterling’s abduction and death in 1989 led directly to a massive system of laws that today affects close to a million men, women, and children plus their family members. In that same year, 1989, the death by firearms of 4,384 children and teens caused barely a blip on the radar. What if,

This all-too-common theme is to promote harsher laws for people with a sex offense all in the name of protecting our communities. Political leaders in Tallahassee, along with our Florida governor, have passed and signed into law Bill 537 that effectively removes the possibility of any gain time while incarcerated for people who have been charged with an “attempted” sex

Fascinating from The New Yorker (note article limit and paywall)

Registrants represented by Oliver Law Group appeal dismissal of their suit against governors and state police, as reported by Courthouse News. For more background on Michigan registrants’ challenge, visit Michigan ACLU’s SORA Resources Page.

The civil commitment fiasco gets covered in the publication Route Fifty: ”’There is no evidence that having these programs reduces sexual assaults,’ said [ACLU lawyer Ben] Wolf. ‘We have a good lab: Lots of states have these programs and lots don’t. There is no appreciable difference [in the number of sexual assaults reported]. If the goal is community safety, the

“There is a difference between the conviction and the effect of the registry’s label of a ‘high risk of danger’ on individuals, particularly things like unemployment and joblessness, houselessness, depression, and even suicide are affected by the label. SORNA says that individuals on this registry pose a risk of sexual danger, not just at the time of conviction, but now