Author: FAC Contributor #1

The public expects and deserves evidence-based practices when it comes to public safety. This is true for any aspect of public policy but perhaps none so much as sex offender policy. With sex offenders, there is a sense of moral outrage at the depravity of their crimes, and rightly so. Virtually any sex crime makes the news headlines because the

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The city has paid $20,000 to the family of a man who was incorrectly labeled a sex offender by the tax collector’s office. For six months Andrew Flaherty had no idea his ID card showed he was sex offender. “He had tried to get on the naval base with his brother and they almost arrested him, were

“Surprisingly, none of the men arrested is a sexual offender or predator” that’s a quote from this article out of Jacksonville which discusses the results of “Operation Savior” a week-long police sting which was a “joint investigation by JSO, FBI, FDLE and a slew of other law enforcement agencies.” The sting resulted in the arrest of 18 men who were

As Speaker of the House of Representatives, John Dennis Hastert was two heart beats away from serving as President of the United States.  That is, if both the President and Vice President had died while in office, Hastert would have stepped into the Oval Office and assumed the leadership of this country. The fact is that Hastert was a member of the U.S

There is a young man in Virginia sitting behind tall fences and razor wire, guarded by men with guns, and never allowed to leave. According to the state, he isn’t in prison, and he is not being punished for a crime. Instead, he’s being held because the government says he might commit a crime in the future. Against a backdrop