Author: FAC Contributor #1

A series of new bills have been filed affecting sex offenders. Below are the bill numbers and a sentence on what they cover:     SB 134 – Lifetime Electronic Monitoring of Sex Offenders (HB 203) This bill requires sex offenders be on lifetime electronic monitoring.   SB 336 – Sexual Predators and Offenders (HB 387) This requires risk assessments

Ben Boychuck’s recent article (“Best solution may be sex offender ‘colonies,’” March 6) reminded me of a similar suggestion in 2010 by gubernatorial candidate Douglas Hughes to build a “pedophile island” off the California coast. Thankfully, Hughes was not elected, but his sentiments are often echoed across the nation. The suggestion that those convicted of sex crimes should be banished

Below is a copy of the letter circulated by Sheriff Danny Millsaps of Graham County, North Carolina. He’s allowing registrants who want to attend Church Services to do so on Sundays in the Jail.  

A Lackawanna County judge on Friday denied a convicted sex offender’s challenge of a law that extended his obligation to report under Megan’s Law from 10 years to life. Matthew Woodruff argued he should not be subject to the lifetime requirement under the Sexual Offender Registration and Notification Act because he pleaded guilty prior to law’s effective date. He also

Sex offenders who hit it big in the Florida Lottery would have the winnings placed into escrow, giving their victims an opportunity to resolve any claims, under a proposal filed Friday by state Rep. Bob Cortes, R-Altamonte Springs. The measure, which doesn’t yet have a Senate companion, would place the prize of a person convicted of sexual battery, lewd acts

A U.S. Department of State employee was arrested Tuesday morning in Broward County on a federal charge of possessing child pornography. FBI agents took Peter Meyers, 53, into custody at the home he rented in Margate. Investigators said he came to their attention in February when they identified an Internet address in Broward County that was sharing computer files depicting