News & Updates

Winter Springs Florida’s ABC Affiliate, WFTV, reported about a sexual assault yesterday. In that report they quoted Senator Linda Stewart as saying “The problem that we have with the [sex] offenders is that they are going to offend again.” Really?!?! Perhaps Senator Stewart and WFTV need an education on actual recidivism rates. If anyone has a moment today, please reach

From The Appeal The Pennsylvania Supreme Court is expected to rule on five cases this year that could change how the state treats people convicted of sex offenses, and could ease the state’s sex offense registry restrictions, commonly referred to as Megan’s Law. But in a December opinion piece, state Attorney General Josh Shapiro warned that if the court were

(Decided to share this story in hope it might keep somebody else from the humiliation i experienced with my family and add to your travel site data base ) Unfortunately i found out the hard way about International Megan’s Law while traveling to Bahamas on a family/birthday vacation. Since i had traveled to the Bahamas multiple times before the law

[FAC NOTE: Since we posted Part I, we are including part II, though this part goes off on a bit of a tangent and the concept of the registry being tantamount to a genocide may be offensive to some of our members. Below are cut and pasted excerpts of what I believe are relevant sections of the article we wanted

A new and potentially important bill was filed last week in the Florida House of Representatives. House Bill 1055, sponsored by Rep. Chuck Brannon III proposes the following changes to Florida’s registration laws: Provide financial support to Law Enforcement to find missing and exploited children (WE SUPPORT) Afford reporting of vehicle information through the online portal (WHILE WE STILL STRONGLY

Much appreciation to the Brennan Center, Ruth Sangree and Professor Rachel Barkow for including the concept of modifying the “sex offender” label in their piece on ending mass incarceration! Below is the relevant excerpt: “Too often laws group together people of wildly different levels of culpability. A category like “sex offender” includes violent rapists and teens who sext each other.