Author: FAC Contributor #1

For a long time FAC has been reporting of the unintended consequences residency restrictions have created. Little to no housing options for registered sex offenders has led to homelessness. It has separated families; husbands not being able to live with their wives, fathers not being able to parent their children. Housing instability is a trigger for recidivism. It has caused

If the most looked down upon member of society can’t engage in the most looked down upon job in society, what is left to do?

The Maryland Appeals Court has declared the retroactive application of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) unconstitutional in that State. The State had previously ruled that the retroactive application of SORNA was punitive and that someone who was previously not required to register or who had completed their “term” of registration must be removed.Doe v. Department of Public

Please read through the following Op-Ed piece submitted by Martin Dyckman to ContextFlorida and share your thoughts below. Do you think Police engaging in contact with individuals in ADULT sex ads and then introducing them to the concept of sex with a minor is entrapment or do you think they are going after people who would otherwise be predators?  

I was pleased to see a recent Sentinel editorial declaring the Internet sex offender roster punitive. My nonprofit group Citizens for Criminal Justice Reform filed an amicus brief in December supporting John Doe, a former sex offender challenging the New Hampshire sex offender shaming list as an unconstitutional ex-post-facto punishment. At the oral arguments in May, all four justices asked

The Supreme Court Press “Petition of the Month”TM for June 2014 is Kyle E. McClamma v. Josepha Michele Remon, Supreme Court Dkt. No. TBD, an appeal coming out of the Eleventh Circuit. The petition was filed pro se by the petitioner Kyle E. McClamma, a resident of the Tampa, Florida Region. Question Presented: Whether a probation officer has the power