News & Updates

The Supreme Court will soon consider whether to hear a First Amendment challenge to a Louisiana law that required driver’s licenses to identify sex offenders. According to a Louisiana law, people convicted of sex crimes must use driver’s licenses with the words ‘sex offender’ in large orange letters below their photos. It can make everyday encounters – with bank tellers,

Yesterday we got 3 notifications that they were scam targets. One would think that with enough complaints the FDLE would take measures to track these scammers down, but apparently they don’t. This was from a member: I wanted to let you know about a scam that has been targeting registrants. Recently I got a call from someone pretending to be

Well this isn’t good… How about the other 99% of the times someone needs to show their drivers licenses, like when cashing a check or using a credit card?

A Palm Coast man drove to the Kim C. Hammond Justice Center in Bunnell on Tuesday morning to be sentenced to 3½ years in prison on 10 counts of possession of child pornography. But instead of walking into the courthouse, XXXXXX XXXXXX, 47, remained in his truck and apparently shot himself to death outside the courthouse, according to a release

The S.C. Supreme Court has ruled the state’s lifetime requirement to register as a sex offender is unconstitutional and those who demonstrate a low risk of re offending may have their names purged with a judge’s permission. You can read the Court’s opinion here: https://www.sccourts.org/opinions/HTMLFiles/SC/28033.pdf https://law.justia.com/cases/south-carolina/supreme-court/2021/28033.html Watch oral arguments here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTPq69kGgiE    

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