Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
In Rhode Island, a story is unfolding that perfectly captures the contradiction at the heart of the registry system. A man working as a property manager was arrested after his status became known. The issue we want to highlight is not that he was arrested for not disclosing his work – that’s the law, he didn’t report his work, he
Read moreWTF!!! Nearly a million dollars for a reporting violation! A recent story out of Arkansas is a perfect case study in how the sex offender registry is designed to work and how it fails taxpayers. According to the news story, two individuals accused of failing to comply with registration requirements were each given bonds of $950,000. Not for a new
Read moreA quick legal update for those who were following the path of the “Ex Post Facto I” complaint as it made it’s way from the District Court in 2018, to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, back to the District Court, only to be dismissed again… A Fourth Amended Complaint was filed earlier this month and the FDLE is required
Read moreThe Colorado Supreme Court concluded on Monday that lifetime sex offender registration is not cruel and unusual punishment because it is not “punishment.” At the same time, two members urged lawmakers to heed the advice of the Sex Offender Management Board and adopt a new, more accurate system of measuring a person’s risk of recidivism. Under Colorado law, “sexually violent
Read moreThe attempted assassination attempt at this weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner and other recent conversations about political violence have brought up a pretty simple but important point: the way we talk about people matters. During a press conference held shortly after the dinner, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche asked, “what do you expect to happen” when public rhetoric consistently targets
Read moreThis clip from a recently aired episode of Dr. Phil features Michigan Judge Rosemarie Aquilina, who answers the questions of whether the sex offender registry keeps us safe. It does not. After pointing out that we are approaching one million people on US Sex Offender Registries, Judge Aquilina points out that the registry is so saturated it becomes blinding to
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