News & Updates

A Connecticut Superior Court Judge allowed a Rocky Hill Nursing Facility to remain open and servicing its patients, after the Town tried to shut it down, finding the fact that it provides care to prison parolees does not violate Rocky Hill’s zoning code. The Hartford Courant reported that “neighbors testified during the trial in August that the presence of sex

Parents nationwide have been fed misleading headlines touting the results of operation “Southern Impact II” which purportedly “nabbed 76 child-sex predators” and in which “13 children were rescued or identified as victims”. Without more, those are some scary numbers and what appears to be a very successful “operation”, but if you dig below the surface, it’s not so successful after

The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has ruled that completely restricting a person’s access to the internet as a condition of their parole from prison is a violation of the First Amendment. Here is the decision: http://www.courtswv.gov/supreme-court/docs/spring2018/16-1156.pdf “Like the statute in Packingham, Mr. Ross’s condition of parole ‘bars access to…sources for knowing current events, checking ads for employment, speaking

An Alabama registrant, who spent 18 months in jail for a sex offense he was convicted of in 2000, is facing ten (10) years in prison. His “new crime”, minors, aged 11-16 were visiting his home! Sounds sinister? How about; the children were his relatives? How about; the children’s parents were staying there with them?  

Another excellent contribution from a new source FAC has come across; injusticetoday.com, which is a criminal justice news outlet. The contributors to In Justice Today are legal scholars, attorneys, reform advocates, writers and others with an interest in matters concerning criminal law. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo recently unveiled a legislative proposal packaged as part of a budget amendment to

14 year old “Jane Doe” sent a nude selfie to a boy she liked. He shared the image with a couple friends. Prosecutors charged the boys AND Jane Doe with child pornography offenses. Her, with transmitting child porn (in which the victim was herself), which goes along with 10 years on the sex offender registry. In a rare happy ending