News & Updates

Since launching one year ago, our YouTube Channel has grown to 275 subscribers and we’d like to see it continue to grow! The Channel features videos intended to educate the public on facts vs. myths about persons required to register as sex offenders. There are also video recordings of oral arguments on registration cases, which you will find interesting. We

Yesterday, Governor DeSantis signed HB 1313 into law.  This bill brings Florida up to date with modern technology by establishing a “Digital proof of driver license“. The Digital proof of driver license is an electronic credential viewable on an electronic credentialing system. In other words, instead of having to show a plastic card, you will likely be able to show

Just released is the United States Sentencing Commission June 2021 report, “Federal Sentencing of Child Pornography: Non-Production Offenses“. The last time the USSC issued a report on CP sentencing was in 2012, so this updated report is 9 years in the making. As with all news, we want to bring it to you as soon as we learn of it,

Juveniles cannot be mandated to register as lifelong sex offenders in Colorado if there is no way for offenders to be individually assessed or to later be removed from the registry, the state Supreme Court ruled Monday. “Mandatory lifetime sex offender registration brands juveniles as irredeemably depraved based on acts committed before reaching adulthood,” Justice Monica Márquez wrote. “But a

A trial date has been set in lobbyist Ron Book’s DUI case (Case No. 19005520MU10A). As of now, it will be taking place on September 21, 2021, before the Honorable Jill Levy, beginning 9:30AM in Courtroom 6170 of the Broward County Central Courthouse, 201 SE 6th Street, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301.  

Free. Live-streamed on Facebook (https://www.easternstate.org/facebook) and via Zoom webinar. (https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89360366229? pwd=MzNTM3BWZ3psKzUzREtsYnNyRTczQT09) Join us as we take a look at the history and consequences of well intentioned legislation and the human and community impact of sex offender registries. Since 1996, all 50 U.S. states and Washington D.C. require people convicted of sex offenses to be placed on a registry. Over the