Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
Actually, the need for nursing home care for people forced to register on the sex offender registry is beyond a crisis state – it is catastrophic. Before the Florida legislative session began this year, some of our FAC members organized to send letters to certain legislators, informing them of the critical situation that so many registered persons and their families
Read moreIf you’re charged with voting illegally in Florida, it’s becoming harder to predict how your case will end. Conviction? Dismissal? Plea bargain? It’s anyone’s bet. One key fact in common with the defendants: they were issued valid voter ID cards by the state of Florida. Read the rest from WESH 2. Congratulations to WESH on seeking out a variety of
Read moreIn Greenville County, SC, nine out of the 560 people forced to register for a sex offense were found not to be living where they said they were living or failed to register. What should have been the takeaway in this story: None of the 560 people was found to have committed a new sex offense. Isn’t this what society
Read moreStates sued over the registry often try to get the case against them dismissed on procedural grounds. Sometimes a state will argue that a suit is time-barred, not ripe, brought too soon, brought too late, or that plaintiffs lack standing. Or, as in the example of this case, the state argued that we are simply suing the wrong people. In
Read moreRecently we posted a story from The New Yorker on an innocent man being sent to prison and then placed on the registry for a rape that he did not commit. One reason for this travesty was the overreach of a prosecutor who carelessly handled the results of a botched identification in a lineup. This particular case, if it had
Read moreBy Sandy Rozek, Communications Director for NARSOL Jacob Wetterling’s abduction and death in 1989 led directly to a massive system of laws that today affects close to a million men, women, and children plus their family members. In that same year, 1989, the death by firearms of 4,384 children and teens caused barely a blip on the radar. What if,
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