News & Updates

The Florida Action Committee has written a letter to the South Florida Gay News, a local publication servicing the LGBT community. SFGN’s recent coverage of The Pride Center’s employment of Clarence Collins, a person required to register as a sex offender, is shameful and in stark contrast to a series of commentaries by Chris Reina published in SFGN. Makes you

Two New Jersey registrants won an appeal after being retroactively forced to register for life. Both would have been eligible to be removed after 15 years, but a subsequent change in the law removed that opportunity. The Superior Court of New Jersey found the State changed the law retroactively, thereby changing the consequences of their guilty plea AND creating a

SOURCE: Honolulu Beat The most common misconception is that everyone on the list is a predator who poses a substantial risk to strangers. Sexual predators are in your neighborhoods and parks! This is the major takeaway from recent news reports about Hawaii’s sex offender registry. It makes for sensational copy, but it overlooks and ignores several serious problems with sex

A North Carolina appellate court ruled that a sex offender cannot be forced to wear a GPS monitoring device for 30 years because there is no evidence to show that GPS tracking protects the public. The Court of Appeals of North Carolina ruled that, “absent any evidence that satellite based monitoring is effective to protect the public from sex offenders,

Source: Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Council, the state’s supreme court, has ruled in favor of registrants who were trying either to terminate their duty to register or to change the tier level on which they were situated. In doing so, the Court recognized that there are significant challenges facing registrants including stigma and legal

Setting aside the use of the term “pedophile” in their title, here’s an interesting article out of Metro in the UK. One of those online vigilantes that make a sport out of setting up individuals in self-initiated “predator stings” is on the receiving end of some justice, according to his own account. It seems a group of his targets might