Author: FAC Contributor #1

The Constitution’s ex post facto clause prohibits passing a law that retroactively increases the punishment for a criminal act that an offender committed before the law was passed. But in an ingenious 2003 Supreme Court ruling, a 6-3 conservative majority held that retroactive placement on a state sex offender registry–being put on a registry that was created after an offender

Amid a growing national debate over sex offender registries, researchers who studied years of crime data from Baltimore County have released a new finding: Neighborhoods with more registered sex offenders experienced fewer reported sex offenses. The researchers from Princeton University and the University of Michigan, who chose Baltimore County because it was the first place they found where they could

For those of you who attended our Member Call last night (there were 52 of you, so thanks!), we received a proposal and overview from Attorney Val Jonas, who will be representing FAC and our members in our legal challenge to the requirement to register our internet identifiers. We need to raise at least $10,000 to initiate this challenge and

This article out of Maryland describes the use of their new license plate scanning technology “LPR technology is used to scan for stolen vehicles, identification of persons with active warrants for their arrest, and monitoring for Amber alerts,” she said. “Information from LPR reads may be matched against databases for wanted persons, protection orders, missing persons, gang members, known and

You know how you can ask probation one thing and be told something else by the Sheriff’s office? Or you’ll call the County and they will give you one answer but the FDLE tells you something else? Well here’s a case where a registrant got permission to move to a location, bought a home, moved in and then was told

If two 16 year olds text naked pictures to each other, they are sex offenders. If the same two 16 year olds actually have sex, they are not.   If you pay a prostitute to have sex with you, you are a sex offender and you committed a crime. If you pay someone to have sex with you and film