Another State Puts Civil Commitment Under Fire

The State of New York is joining the growing number of States which are questioning their Civil Commitment programs. New York, which reportedly, “is spending more than $200,000 annually for each civilly confined sex offender in New York facilities “with those numbers (of offenders) rising every year.” Civil Commitment is a program whereby someone who has committed a sexual offense

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HA! DC Court Allows www.idiotsregistry.info to Stay Up

I LOVE IT!!!!! A Registered Citizen from Washington, DC, tired of the harassment of the registry, decided to create his own online registry of those who contribute to making his life difficult. He created the Idiot’s Registry www.idiotsregistry.info, which features people in his registration office and others responsible for the registry. The courts decided his website was constitutionally protected speech

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Residency Restrictions In Lynn Mass. Knocked Out – Read why it's important to FAC

In March, we were contacted by Attorney Amy Belger from Massachusetts. Ms. Belger was working on an Amicus Brief to be filed in the case of Doe v. City of Lynn, on behalf of registered citizens in the City of Lynn Massachusetts who were subject to a residency restriction. Since Florida had been the “birthplace” of the residency restriction and

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Collateral damage: Harsh sex offender laws may put whole families at risk

When William Quarles, 38, bolts from his desk around 5:30 most weeknights, he’s up against his most important deadline of the day. Quarles is an audiovisual editor and social media manager at a Christian television studio in St. Petersburg, Florida. By the time he gets home, he and Ashley, his wife of nine years, have just over three hours to

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It gets more pathetic; Registered Citizen arrested for participation in Church

It gets more and more pathetic. Now, out of North Carolina, a registered citizen was arrested for participating in Church. Not for offending in a church, for merely participating! What was he doing that was so horrific, you ask? Well, he was singing, worshiping, taking up a collection for the church, serving as an elder… Apparently THAT is what got

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