News & Updates

A year ago we posted a warning about a lawyer from Texas, Teri Estes-Hightower, who was using the Florida Sex Offender’s registry to solicit people for a “class action” lawsuit in Florida against the registry. While this all sounded great to some who didn’t know better. Those with experience in registration matters and constitutional law saw this as a disaster.

News4Jax just posted a story in which their “crime and safety expert” Ken Jefferson (@kenjefferson_) made the FALSE claim that “Statistics have shown over 90% of sexual predators and offenders will reoffend,” That statistic is completely FALSE and inflammatory. The re offense rate of people required to register as sex offenders or sexual predators is lower than almost all other

The Supreme Court of the United States has refused to consider a 9th Circuit Court decision that, which upheld a decision that  homeless people have a constitutional right to sleep on public property outdoors if no other shelter is available to them. The case is Boise v. Martin, and the ruling of the appellate court was that the city may

Gov. Ralph Northam of Virginia on Friday ordered the suspension of a policy that allows prison officials to strip-search children after an 8-year-old girl was told to remove her clothes before being allowed to see her father, an inmate. READ MORE An 8-year-old girl visiting her father at a Virginia prison was strip searched last month in violation of state

This one is for those who think “who will know”…The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s allowance of electronic video surveillance equipment as used by law enforcement to catch someone living where he was not registered. In United States v. STEFANYUK, the defendant was charged with failure to register (among other things). To catch him living where

For the second time this year, child sex offenders who live at Wayside Cross Ministries in Aurora were given letters stating they must find a new place to live within 30 days. READ MORE