News & Updates

Alissa R. Ackerman and Marshall Burns had a study published in the Spring 2016 issue of the Justice Policy Journal on how the government and media distort the statistics for recidivism and how those distorted statistics are derived. You can read the report here: https://floridaactioncommittee.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/distorted-statistics-on-recidivism-may-2016.pdf  

With the promise of saving taxpayer dollars to house a growing prisoner population during a cyclical crime wave in the early 1990s, Florida decided to experiment with private prisons. From the start, those involved in the push to privatize were tainted with ethical conflicts, and more than two decades later politics still rule the privatization issue while cost savings have

A registered sex offender wants the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate a North Carolina law that bans him from accessing Facebook and other social media sites, in Packingham v. North Carolina, No. 15-1194. Fifteen law professors, including former presidential candidate Lawrence Lessig and free speech guru Eugene Volokh, are supporting the First Amendment challenge in a friend of the court

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A Wisconsin registered sex offender is not the first to chose continued incarceration better than the forced homelessness that residency restrictions effectively impose. The below map shows the areas off-limits to registered citizens in Milwaukee As you can see from the limited areas in white, it doesn’t leave much of the city available for a registrant to find housing.  

A hearing on the government’s Motion to Dismiss the International Megan’s Law challenge is scheduled to take place on July 27th in Oakland, California. California RSOL in conjunction with RegistrantTAG is coordinating the permits for demonstration in the plaza in front of the courthouse. More information to follow. We recognize that California is on the opposite end of the country,