Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
This story out of Manteca, California really frustrates me. The city cancelled a contract with a cleaning company that was contracted to clean out illegal homeless encampments after it was discovered that one of the owners was on the registry. During the awarding of the contract, the company submitted references attesting to the quality of work they do. The references
Read moreA recent decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit is a good reminder that there are actually two different registration systems that people need to understand: state requirements and federal SORNA requirements. A state has it’s own set of laws (including duration and how often you have to report) and the feds have different rules. Now
Read moreA federal judge in Idaho has issued a decision in Does v. Labrador, a case challenging Idaho’s sex offender registry under the Ex Post Facto and Double Jeopardy Clauses of the Constitution. The decision is not the result the plaintiffs wanted. On September 29, Judge David Nye granted Idaho’s motion for summary judgment, holding that Idaho’s registry scheme is a civil
Read moreThis is totally off topic, but a curiosity when considering the way sexual offenses are investigated and prosecuted (or not) when it comes to the powerful. Jeffrey Epstein is dead. Officially, suicide by hanging in his Manhattan jail cell in August 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges. You’d think he’d wait until after his trial – after all,
Read moreOn August 22, 2025, Michael A. McGuire filed a federal civil rights lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. The case is McGuire v. Richardson, No. 2:25-cv-00681. It was the latest step in a fight he had carried on for more than a decade against the way Alabama treats people on its sex offender registry.
Read moreFor years, policymakers have been told that putting more information about people on public registries will automatically make communities safer. A recent debate in Australia suggests that some lawmakers over there are not so sure. Lawmakers there are pushing back against aspects of a proposed law known as Daniel’s Law, which would create a system allowing members of the public
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