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Listen to Guy Hamilton Smith, Legal Fellow at the Mitchell Hamline School of Law Sex Offense Litigation and Policy Resource Center, discuss his article “The Digital Wilderness: A Decade of Exile & the False Hopes of Lester Packingham.”  

The Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws, based on California and headed by Civil Rights Attorney Janice Bellucci, has made incredible progress in their state. Not only in challenging unconstitutional restrictions imposed on people who have to register as “sex offenders”, but in educating the public on the facts vs. myths of “sex offenders” so that measures and attention are

A second lawsuit was filed this week in Federal Court for the Southern District of Florida. This from the Palm Beach Post: WEST PALM BEACH — When a Palm Beach County man in 1993 pleaded guilty to two counts of lewd and lascivious assault on a person under the age of 16, he made it clear he wouldn’t accept the

Body of registered sex offender found wrapped in plastic; death ruled homicide. Steven T. Johnson died as a result of blunt force trauma to the head, but it’s too early to know how long he’d been dead, according to the Montgomery County Coroner’s Office. Johnson was on the state’s sex offender registry for a December 1999 conviction for unlawful sexual

A lawsuit was filed in Federal Court challenging the Florida Sex Offender registry. The suit is a facial challenge, filed on behalf of persons required to register in the State of Florida. It argues that the registry violates the Ex Post Facto clause of the constitution, constitutes Cruel and Unusual Punishment, violates Procedural Due Process, violates Substantive Due Process, is

Ryan Will, a homicide prosecutor with the 7th Circuit State Attorney’s Office who is running for Judge, admitted to the St. Augustine Record, that he helped communities install parks for the express purpose of banning persons required to register as sex offenders (who are subject to residency restrictions) from the area. One of Will’s activities outside the courtroom is helping