News & Updates

Today, a Kane County Illinois judge denied a temporary restraining order against the city of Aurora’s eviction of 18 sex offenders from the Wayside Cross Ministries halfway house. The City claimed they can’t live there because it is less than 500 feet from a city playground and park. Mark Weinberg, one of the attorneys representing the men said that he

Iowa officials have decided to release a convicted child molester from incarceration due to the belief that a recent sex change lowered the offender’s testosterone level making the felon less likely to re-offend. The state is now arguing that Smith’s lower testosterone level as a result of hormone treatment that Smith began in 2017 lowers the likelihood that Smith will

A House subcommittee is investigating popular dating services such as Tinder and Bumble for allegedly allowing minors and sex offenders to use their services. Bumble, Grindr, The Meet Group and the Match Group, which owns such popular services as Tinder, Match.com and OkCupid, are the current targets of the investigation by the U.S. House Oversight and Reform subcommittee on economic

Earl Yarington, the author of the three articles recently posted at the FAC website on civil commitment, has asked that we share some of our stories with him concerning the effects of the registry on our family members.  He is writing a book on civil commitment and the effects of the registry on families, which parallels FAC’s new Non-Registrant Collateral

The Ohio Senate is holding hearings for a bill that could ease up on the punishment for teenage sexting, as lawmakers argue the current punishment can carry lifelong consequences.  Listen The proposed bill, SB239, still bans the act of teenagers sending sexually explicit images to other teenagers, however, it creates a standard punishment of attending a diversion program. Senator Nathan Manning

A Tennessee news station reached out to churches to get their take on a state bill that would require a person required to register as a sexual offender to provide written notice to the Church and obtain written permission before attending services. We believe this is a horrible requirement and that nobody should be required to shame themselves in order