News & Updates

Registrant Travel Action Group (http://registranttag.org) has updated it’s travel matrix to unfortunately reflect India and Jamaica as countries that are denying entry to individuals registered as sex offenders. The link to their travel matrix can be found below.   Travel Matrix

The US Department of State issued a press release friday announcing the “unique identifier it will be using for the passports of covered sex offenders. it reads:   On February 8, 2016, Congress enacted the International Megan’s Law to Prevent Child Exploitation and Other Sexual Crimes Through Advanced Notification of Traveling Sex Offenders (IML) (Public Law 114-119). The IML prohibits

As a follow-up to our post from earlier today, which can be seen here: https://floridaactioncommittee.org/will-someone-please-correct-wftv9-orlando/ Jacksonville’s First Coast News has put up a scare story. http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/local/data/crime/jso-plans-operation-for-sex-offenders-and-sex-predators-on-halloween/486557603 Please help educate First Coast News by encouraging them not to perpetuate unfounded fear and actually write something to improve public safety? This story has a place for comments.

With Halloween approaching, we monitor the local news stations, waiting for the Halloween scare stories to come out. This morning, Orlando’s ABC affiliate, WFTV put one out, suggesting, “parents can also take matters into their own hands by searching online to find out where in their neighborhood registered sex offenders live” in order to make their children safer this Halloween.

One week after registrants in Indiana were victorious in a legal challenge to compelled sex offender treatment classes, they were handed another victory in being able to attend churches. The Indiana Court of Appeals ordered a trial court to grant a permanent injunction barring the state from arresting sex offenders for attending churches that hold Sunday schools or offer child

The twin minors victimized in a sex ring with their mother, stepfather and other Escambia County Sheriff’s Office personnel have filed a federal lawsuit claiming Sheriff David Morgan allowed the activities. The girls, now both adults, were sexually assaulted by ECSO Deputy Walter Thomas; their stepfather, ECSO Deputy Doug Manning; and their mother, ECSO Nurse Leah Manning, for a period around 2014 when they