News & Updates

Earlier this week, the Florida Action Committee sent a letter to the County Commissioners for Miami-Dade County, requesting the repeal of the sex offender residency restriction that has caused over 250 individuals to live in squalor, without shelter or sanitation alongside active railroad tracks. A link to the letter can be found here: https://floridaactioncommittee.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Letter-To-M-D-County-Commissioners-08282017.pdf The letter also contains references to

A HUGE win out of Colorado, where a Federal Judge declared the Sex Offender Registry to be “cruel and unusual” punishment. In his ruling, which can be read HERE, he opined that the sex offender registry gives the public the “power to inflict punishments beyond those imposed through the court.” What is also significant from the Judge’s opinion is that

Below is another excellent decision, finding conditions of registration punishment and a violation of the Ex Post Facto clause of the Constitution: A 2015 law meant to prohibit certain sex offenders from entering school property is unconstitutional as it applies to a Howard County man who has already completed his punishment for his 2010 child solicitation conviction, the Indiana Court

NPR released a four-part series on “Sex Offenders and Public Safety”. You can use the following links to listen to parts one and two: https://cpa.ds.npr.org/wvtf/audio/2017/08/so_part_1.mp3 https://cpa.ds.npr.org/wvtf/audio/2017/08/so_part_2.mp3

A Texas FOX News affiliate just posted a story with the following headline, “Ingham County looking to charge 4 sex offenders after verification operation”. What the headline could have just as easily read was, “97% of registered sex offenders found to be compliant with laws”, because only 3 out of 114 checked in the Ingham County operation were suspected to

Shalimar, Florida’s WEAR ran a story on the newly designed Florida driver’s licenses. One surprising opinion about the new license came from a retired parole officer, who commented on the sex offender designation on licenses for those registered. Here’s what he had to say: “The new license turns heads in Okaloosa County; including Don Gatchell’s. He’s a retired parole officer