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In June, RSOL National held an annual convention in Dallas, TX. Two members of our board attended and Gail Colletta, our president, even participated on a speaker panel. For those of you who missed the event; videos of the presentation are now available online and we’ve posted a few of them below.   RSOL Conf 2015 Legislative Action Panel RSOL

CITY OF SHASTA LAKE, Calif. – The Shasta County Jail has released the mugshot of a suspect who deputies said shot another man after learning he was a registered sex offender. Timothy Gould, 28, was arrested Monday around 5:30 p.m. after officers had identified him as a suspect in an earlier shooting in the City of Shasta Lake. According to

When the Federal Court dismissed our lawsuit challenging the Miami-Dade Sex Offender Residency Restrictions (currently on appeal), Miami-Dade County issued a press release stating, “Miami-Dade County Commissioner Jose “Pepe” Diaz is applauding a federal district court ruling that upholds the County’s residency restrictions on sex offenders.” The residency restrictions, which have been proven ineffective and actually counter-productive in protecting children

This Wisconsin opinion piece makes a good argument: Consider for a moment how the government treats sex offenders. Sex offenders are viewed as a great danger to children since the crimes they commit ruin children’s lives. The potential for recidivism being high, the laws governing sex offenders heavily regulate the lives of these criminals after they have served their sentences.

A North Escambia man was charged with failure to register after he moved from FL to Georgia without registering. He was sentenced to 130 months in prison! That’s over 10 years for a registration violation!!! While it was his third registration violation, the underlying offense for which he has to register was in 1994, over 20 years ago! With no

Just as FAC is the Florida affiliate of National RSOL, another subgroup has been created under National to address concerns specific to international travel. Registrant Travel Action Group, Inc. was recently formed. Although it is based out of Texas, a board member of FAC has been named a director of that national organization. From time to time we will repost