News & Updates

Authors Martin Schmucker and Friedrich Lösel The Question Does sex offender treatment reduce recidivism? The Research In 2005, Friedrich Lösel and Martin Schmucker conducted an influential meta-analysis of the evaluation of sexual offender treatment. This 2015 study provides an update with more recent primary research and focuses on those higher-quality studies that have comparison/control groups as well as documented measures

It’s important to be tough on crime. We must protect society, especially our children, from criminals whose past behaviors have clearly proven them to be dangerous predators. But sometimes we go overboard when the law creates more unnecessary suffering than it prevents. Freddie Q., now 51 and with no prior criminal record, is currently in his fourth year in federal

The appeal challenging the Miami-Dade Sex Offender Residency Restriction is allowed to proceed. The eleventh circuit is allowing our appeal to proceed despite the government’s motion to have it dismissed. Attorneys for the ACLU are preparing the appellate brief now. Special thanks to the ACLU for keeping up the good fight! We will keep you updated as things progress!

In doing some online research for answers to a question, I came across http://www.solresearch.org/. On the homepage they had an interesting fact, “The federal sentence for photographing a 17-year-old with an erection is twice as severe as for attempting to kill him.” Researcher Marshall Burns has put together a very useful site full of interesting statistics and summaries of studies

HB 1179/SB 1657 which authorized Sheriffs to charge a “registration fee” for the privilege of registering as a sex offender is dead. The bills died in the Criminal Justice Subcommittees. According to the published Bill analysis, “Currently, six sheriffs’ offices reported that they require offenders to pay for registration or re-registration and the other 61 do not require payments. For

Attorney Janice Bellucci, who is leading the charge to get the International Megan’s Law thrown out, has filed a Reply Memorandum in Support of Plaintiff’s Motion for Preliminary Injunction. A copy of the pleading can be found here: https://floridaactioncommittee.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/PI-Reply-CONFORMED.pdf The hearing on the Plaintiff’s motion will be held on March 30, 2016 at 9AM (pacific time) in California. If Plaintiff’s