News & Updates

The NY Daily News has unnecessarily shamed a man who died yesterday. Charles Cheeseboro, Jr., 43, was involved in a scooter accident that left him with a serious head. He succumbed to his injury two days later. He was living homeless at the time. He used to work with the Doe Fund, a nonprofit that assists homeless people. He was

Federal Sentencing guidelines are grossly outdated and misguided. Professor Brent Newton, Adjunct Professor of Law at America and Georgetown Universities and former Deputy Staff Director of the United States Sentencing Commission from 2009 until 2019, thinks so and has published a report with a proposed fix to partially fix the broken guidelines. Read it here: A partial fix for broken

In May, a federal judge gave Michigan lawmakers 90 days to overhaul the state’s sex offender registry law. That ruling came after a 2016 federal appeals court decision that found the sex offender registry law was unconstitutional. That 90-day deadline has now passed, but the law still stands. We talk to Miriam Aukerman, senior staff attorney with the ACLU of

If you are in South Florida, we encourage you to attend the South Florida Reentry Task Force meeting on Wednesday, September 18th from 10:30AM to noon at the Everglades Re-Entry Center, 1599 SW 187th Avenue, Miami FL 33194. The speaker at that meeting will be Desmond Meade. For those who don’t know who Desmond is, read the following post: Desmond

The Maryland Supreme Court ruled yesterday that a 16-year-old girl could be charged as her own pornographer—even if the sex act was consensual and the porn was self-produced. The girl shared a video of herself performing a sex act on a 16-year-old girl and a 17-year-old boy. The video made its way around school and ultimately into the hands of

I installed a Ring doorbell by my front door. In fact, I have cameras all around my house. I’m not worried about burglars, I’m worried about vigilantes. Because I’m a person required to register as a sex offender, I’m particularly vulnerable to vigilantism. I’m susceptible to anyone, at any time, bringing a false allegation against me because they don’t want