Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
This Giving Tuesday, we’re asking you to stand with the Florida Action Committee in the fight for justice, dignity, and common sense reform. Every day in Florida, people on the registry are being forced into homelessness, unemployment, isolation, and despair — not because of new crimes, but because of ever-expanding laws and local ordinances that make survival nearly impossible. Families
Read moreThe Ohio House of Representatives nearly unanimously passed House Bill 102, which would prevent people convicted of sex offenses or child-victim offenses from living within 2,000 feet of their victim’s home, and from loitering within 1,000 feet of the victim’s residence. Currently, Ohio law prohibits sex offenders from living near schools, day-cares, and child-care facilities — but does not bar
Read moreAnother law went into effect last month in Florida that has nothing to do with sex offenders but can disproportionately affect persons on the registry. It is now illegal (a misdemeanor) to have a frame on your license plate. An arrest for this violation can cause you to be arrested and an arrest can prevent you from EVER being removed
Read moreCrime is not gender-neutral, according to Franca Cortoni. Women commit far fewer sexual offenses than men, and their risk of re offending after returning to the community is also much lower. A new meta-analysis based on data for 4,208 women shows a recidivism rate of just three per cent over 15 years. You can read the full study here.
Read moreWe’ve received emails from members that they have received postcards from a company called “Offender Reputation and Registry Removal (O-rep)” and with the website https://o-rep.org/. The site claims to offer “Reputation Removal” and “Registry Removal”, that his company can help “get you off the registry”. It talks about “petitions that are over $25,000” but that his membership is only $67.22
Read moreIn 2023, a Minnesota man, 27-year-old Levi Axtell was charged with second-degree murder after admitting he fatally beat a 77-year-old man with a shovel and then finished him off with a large moose antler. Axtell claimed that the man — a convicted sex offender — had stalked and groomed his young daughter, though these claims lacked independent corroboration. As the
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