Author: FAC Contributor #9

A 30-year veteran law enforcement officer of Orange County is accused of targeting a man, with a past sex offense, for the previous two years.  The registrant has a history of arrests for impersonating a police officer. The LE was informed in late 2020 that the investigation into the registrant for any wrongdoing was going to be closed. In March

A former Seminole County Assistant State Attorney will avoid prison for having sex with a 17-year-old girl.  Additionally, he will NOT have to register as a sex offender, and his only punishment will be serving two years on community control and eight on probation. How many people on the highly punitive registry in Florida for life, who had consensual sex

A petition with almost 10,000 signatures has been started by friends of a female bartender who was kidnapped, raped and killed by a man on the Georgia Sex Offense Registry. Georgia had required high-risk registrants to wear a GPS ankle monitor, but the Georgia Supreme Court ruled that was unconstitutional. The people leading the petition drive say that if driver’s

The picture of the driver’s license for a person forced to register in Louisiana that is given in this Reason.com article is foreboding.  Just looking at the license could be argument enough for many judges to rule it unconstitutional.  Unfortunately, Florida is right up there with them. Reason.com blasts Louisiana: Louisiana’s tendency has always been to place additional punishment on registrants in

The story about the U. S. Marshals finding 13 people not living at their registered addresses in Scranton, PA, has been running for several days in Pennsylvania, but I am shocked that the Tampa Bay Times would give up space for something as nonsensical as this story is and miles away from Florida.  As always, no new sex crimes were

These phone scams targeting people on the registry have been discussed many times at our website.  Very little seems to be done by law enforcement throughout the state of Florida, but fortunately that is not true everywhere in our country. We recently saw the Pennsylvania State Police warn registrants about a scam, something FDLE does not do and does not