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Registrant Travel Action Group (RTAG – www.registranttag.org), an RSOL affiliate organized to protect the international travel rights for lawful travel of registrants, is putting together a travel matrix, to serve as a snapshot guide to warn which countries you may have difficulty traveling to. Since the US is now sending out travel alerts whenever a registered citizen travels, you need

When Ken Thornsberry was in high school, he did something a lot of high school students do: He had sex with his teenage girlfriend. As a result, he spent the bulk of his early adulthood behind bars. Thornsberry was an 18-year-old senior when he met his high school girlfriend, Emily Lester, who was a 14-year-old freshman at the time. The

FORT LAUDERDALE — A Broward County Sheriff’s deputy who was arrested on more than two dozen child porn charges died Wednesday night after shooting himself, according to the sheriff’s office. Sgt. Kreg Costa, 42, was rushed to a Broward County Medical Center on Wednesday after suffering a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at 11:27 p.m., according to the

In a 24 page order that was issued Friday, the Judge in our Seminole County proximity ordinance challenge DENIED Seminole County and their Sheriff’s Motion to Dismiss our lawsuit! The lawsuit, in which Florida Action Committee is plaintiff, was brought by the Florida Institutional Legal Services Project of Florida Legal Services on behalf of our organization and the registered citizens

This weekend, Netflix’s series, ‘Orange is the New Black’ began and for those of you who didn’t spend the weekend binge-watching, I’ll share with you a couple of highlights that relate to registered citizens. First, if you have been in solitary and without any connection to the outside world for the past few years, the series is about life inside

FAC was fortunate to be able to send a board member to the National Seminar on Federal Sentencing. The seminar was an opportunity for criminal defense attorneys, judges and other stakeholders to get together and chime in on the state of federal sentences. Below are the meeting notes from FAC’s attendance at the meeting. Thanks to Barb M. for preparing