Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
Sex Offender Registry News Although FAC has not been served yet, we have been made aware that clearmycase.com has sued us for defamation. While it’s generally not advisable to comment on pending litigation, we wanted to keep our members informed, especially in light of yesterday’s article in the Miami Herald which implied this was a dispute among sex offender advocates.
Read moreNews About Florida Sex Offender Registry Maybe we should call it a war between sex offender advocates? Strange lawsuit filed in a local federal court: A Texas-based service that claims to help sexual offenders get off the state registry that limits where they can live and work is suing a Boynton Beach nonprofit that wants to loosen registry rules. “I
Read moreNews About Florida Sex Offender Laws JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Registered sex offenders in the River City may soon be able to live closer to schools, public libraries and other places children frequent if the Jacksonville City Council has anything to say about it. The city council will undergo a second reading of city ordinance 2017-667 on Tuesday. The bill’s primary
Read moreRabbi David J.B. Krishef asks leaders of different religious congregations, “How would your congregation receive sex-offenders as participants in worship and other activities?” Their answers demonstrate religious leaders are insightful, enlightened and informed on the issues. Fred Stella, the Pracharak (Outreach Minister) for the West Michigan Hindu Temple, responds: “West Michigan Hindu Temple has not had to deal with this
Read moreWhen David sifted through the mail the morning of his 18th birthday, he hoped to find cards with money. Instead, he received a warrant for his arrest. The charge: statutory rape. It was 2007, and the 17-year-old junior basketball star had recently moved to a small Missouri town, population less than 500, and almost immediately started dating a girl who
Read moreCalifornia: Major changes are coming to the country’s largest (over 105,000 individuals) and oldest (1947) sex offense registry. Anyone registered in California is listed for life; the state had become an outlier, one of just four states with such a harsh lifetime-registration law. Soon California will have a so-called tiered sex offense registry, the same type of scarlet letter machinery
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