News & Updates

A federal court in Tallahassee has ruled that City Walk Urban Mission can again operate in Wakulla County and can open up three other transition homes within the county. Tuesday, the court approved a settlement between the organization and the county. The county agreed to settle the case for $160,000. In addition to the $160,000 Wakulla County agreed to pay

Below are highlights of ACSOL‘s breakdown of the proposed SORNA changes:   Section 72.3 – Federal law, that is SORNA, will apply to all individuals convicted of a sex offense regardless of when the offense occurred and whether the state where the offense occurred has implemented SORNA. There are currently only 17 of 50 states that have implemented SORNA. Section

Raleigh, North Carolina — Every year as Halloween approaches, many Patch media outlets, as well as others, publish articles featuring “red-dot” maps showing addresses, and sometimes names, of persons listed on sexual offense registries. Within the last few years, this practice has been adopted by some local police departments on their Facebook pages. According to the editors and publishers of such pieces, this

Victims who allege they were sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein have endorsed new legislation to ban lifelike sex dolls that resemble children in an effort to protect minors. The bill builds upon the CREEPER Act, an existing bill introduced to Congress in 2017. The original bill banned the transportation and importation of child sex dolls but languished in the U.S. Senate.

When the Supreme Court of the United States decided Smith v. Doe in 2003 – wrongly, in my opinion – only two justices dissented with the opinion of the majority. Justice Breyer and Justice Ginsburg. Yesterday we lost one of them. Since 2003, Smith v. Doe has been a noose hanging over our heads. The most cited case whenever the

The Seventh Circuit on Friday weighed the intrusiveness of a Wisconsin statute that institutes lifetime GPS monitoring of certain convicted sex offenders against the necessity of preventing further offenses from that particular class of criminals. The underlying suit was first filed as a federal class action by eight registered sex offenders in March 2019. They argued that a 2017 statutory