Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
News for Sex Offenders New York: Just published, a blockbuster report about conditions at Central New York Psychiatric Center near Syracuse. The center is a special locked facility where New York State keeps individuals who have already paid a price for sex offenses and served prison time. After incarceration, indefinite confinement is the next stop–not for anything they have done
Read moreSex Offender News America Is Hard to See, a play based on the actual lives of residents of Miracle Village in Pahokee, Florida opened Friday and has received positive reviews from theater critics. The Off-Broadway play, set in the notorious colony of sex offenders living among grain fields in rural Palm Beach County, is a “fusion of personal interviews and
Read moreThe Florida Action Committee sent the following letter to the Fair Elections Legal Network, who litigated the case of Hand v. Scott, requesting sex offenders and murderers not be sacrificed in the brief containing proposed solutions to the felon voting case. Letter To Fair Elections Legal Network 02052018
Read moreNews on Sex Offender Registries HARRISBURG — About 150 people in Philadelphia are in state prison and 150 more are on probation or parole for neglecting to fill out address-change notifications or missing a required reporting date — all failures to comply with a sex-offender-registration law the state Supreme Court found unconstitutional last July. Now, the fates of those people —
Read moreAt the next Soho Forum/Reason debate, on Monday, February 12, 2018, the question of whether sex offender registries are effective or do more harm than good will be debated. Representing the argument that sex offender registries should be abolished, is Emily Horowitz, professor and chair of the sociology and criminal justice department at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, New York,
Read moreOn April 14, 2014, A national coalition of members of CURE, CURE-SORT, FAC, USA Fair and WAR members joined together to ask Florida legislators, “Why are the many children and families of former offenders being placed in danger from missed opportunities of effective legislation?” “Are the children of citizens on the sex offender registry less valuable to law makers?” Nearly
Read more