News & Updates

Today is October 1, 2016. A day we will forever celebrate. There are many significant dates every year where we recognize important events. We celebrate our birthdays, anniversaries, civil and religious holidays. We commemorate historic events, both good and bad, such as independence day and 9/11. We also recognize dates that are particularly meaningful because they redirected our lives. Today,

PRESS RELEASE FROM THE FLORIDA ACTION COMMITTEE (FAC) For Immediate Release September 30, 2016 Contact: Gail Colletta 561-305-4959   LAKE MONROE, FLORIDA – September 30, 2016 The Florida Action Committee (FAC) sent a petition to Florida Governor Rick Scott today, asking him to clean up the registry. The Florida’s Sex Offender Registry contains over sixty-nine thousand names! Most of the

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled this week that sex offender registration requirements can’t be increased for people who entered into plea agreements before subsequent versions of the registry schemes were passed. The opinion, which can be found here essentially says that the three plaintiffs who all plead guilty before the enactment of the State’s more stringent SORNA (in 2012) could

Federal district judge Robert Hinkle (Northern District of Florida) has entered a preliminary injunction against enforcement of Florida’s impending requirement that all registered sex offenders in the state reveal to law enforcement all of their “Internet identifiers” before using them for Internet communication.  The Florida statute defined “Internet identifiers” this way: “ ‘Internet identifier’ ” includes, but is not limited to, all website uniform resource

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Today the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs (OJP) awarded almost $18 million to implement and enhance sex offender programming throughout the United States. “We have made tremendous strides over the last decade toward building a comprehensive sex offender registration and notification system,” said Director Luis C. deBaca, Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending,

Most of you reading this have already received a notice from FDLE regarding the fact that in light of the federal injunction ordered yesterday, the revision to the definition of “Internet Identifiers” that was supposed to take effect this Saturday (the one that includes all URLs) will not be enforced, but the 2014 definition (what it is currently) will remain