Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
A North Georgia homeless man may go to prison for 18 months because he cannot come up with $250 to take a court-ordered polygraph test. Such a move would seem to violate a U.S. Supreme Court ruling declaring it unconstitutional to jail someone for failing to pay a fee or fine. But the man’s attorney, McCracken Poston, said the state
Read moreNews for Sex Offenders The Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws (ACSOL) has announced that they intend to file a federal challenge to the passport identifier recently revealed by the U.S. State Department within the next 90 days. FAC has committed resources to help in the fight. If you are interested in being named as a plaintiff or would like
Read moreFlorida Sex Offender Laws By now we all know (hopefully) that when visiting Florida, or staying at a temporary location for five (5) or more days, a sex offender is required to register where they are staying as a “temporary address”. But did you know that in addition to going to the local sheriff and registering, you are also required
Read moreNews About Florida Sex Offender Registry More than a dozen registered sex offenders have listed a Central Florida Walmart as their home address. Most people know they can go to the state database and search your home address to find if any sex offenders live nearby. However, it may not occur to people that they search the addresses where they
Read moreFlorida Sex Offender News For 12 years, Miami-Dade’s registered sex offenders have been barred from living within 2,500 feet of any school, playground, or daycare. They’re effectively homeless by law, and today hundreds live in squalor in makeshift “tent cities” under bridges, near trailer parks, and on roadsides. After New Times reported on a camp near Hialeah, county officials called these encampments
Read moreNews About Sex Offender Registries The state Superior Court has handed down a ruling that put an immediate halt to all court proceedings related to defendants facing sexually violent predator designations. As the second ruling within several months to call the state’s current sexual offender statute into question, District Attorney John T. Adams said that it’s time to start fresh.”What
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