News & Updates

A 54 year old person required to register as a sex offender was found dead with “suspicious head injuries” according to the Madison Wisconsin Police, A local alderman is calling for the closure of these “homeless encampments”, but fails to recognize that persons forced to register are generally not allowed in most shelters, are subject to restrictions on housing and

Here’s how to push back on social media and in person. In January 2019, Scott Weiner, a California State Senator, introduced what he thought was an L.G.B.T.Q. Civil Rights Bill. At the time, California law gave judges discretion on whether to put a 19-year-old man on a sex offender registry if he had vaginal sex with a 16-year-old girl, but

FROM OFFENDERWATCH’S PRESS RELEASE: OffenderWatch the leading sex offender registry management solution for law enforcement, and the Caribbean Committee Against Sex Crimes (CCASC), an initiative of nonprofit Zandoli USA, today announced a joint mission to deliver a network of sex offender registries across the 15 nations of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) that seeks to track sex offenders throughout the Caribbean and eventually across

 After 37 years behind bars, DNA evidence has cleared a Florida man of rape and murder charges decades after his sentencing. A hearing before Hillsborough County Circuit Judge Christopher Nash on Monday resulted in an order wiping the previous convictions and life sentence, and removing Robert DuBoise from the state’s sex offender registry. Congratulations Robert! And thank you Susan Friedman

The voting rights if people in Florida with past felony convictions have been in limbo since the 2018 passage of Amendment 4, that was supposed to restore rights to former felons (other than those with a murder or sex offense conviction) who have completed their sentence. Governor DeSantis’ administration, however, thought “completed their sentence” should include paying off all fines

A local Michigan news paper ran this story yesterday, which spoke about the state of Michigan’s sex offender registry and how out of date and inaccurate it is. Essentially, since U.S. District Judge Robert Cleland declared parts of the State’s registry unconstitutional, Michigan has not been enforcing it. That means information on 44,000 people on their list has not been