News & Updates

The New York Times has been giving some attention to our cause lately! Good for you; NY Times!!! It’s about time a reputable news outlet started reporting the truth!     The essence of the American criminal justice system is reactive, not predictive: You are punished for the crime you committed. You can’t be punished simply because you might commit

Whenever South Florida ABC affiliate WPLG has a slow news day they air something about “sex offenders”. Check out today’s “intended to scare you” video and headline: http://www.local10.com/news/sex-offenders-targeting-children-among-those-most-wanted-in-south-florida/34707090 The news station even has their own “sex offender” tab!  

Connecticut’s sex offender registry was created in 1998 to protect the public. Does it work? A committee of the Connecticut Sentencing Commission hopes to answer that question in the next 30 months as it reviews the state’s laws and policies relating to sex offenders. “This is not an easy topic,” said committee co-Chairman Robert Farr, former chairman of the Connecticut

A federal appeals court in Indiana overturned a ban on adult pornography on probation, ruling the pornography was protected under the First Amendment. Florida probation has a similar ban. The Indiana court ruled “Adult pornography did not facilitate or lead to Taylor’s offense here, and there is no evidence or finding that viewing otherwise legal pornography would increase the likelihood

Yesterday, we posted an article titled “Police Questioning Registrants in Jacksonville” and began by suggesting this will be a real-life experiment. Sadly, an 8 year old girl was abducted and raped by an unknown assailant. This is a tragic occurrence and whoever did it will hopefully be caught and prosecuted to the fullest. That said; the fingers automatically pointed to

A McLean County Judge in Illinois ruled that the reporting of internet identifiers is unconstitutional because it violates offenders’ rights to free speech. The judge ruled that the state law is overly broad. This decision comes on the heels of a Nebraska federal decision that ruled in the same way. FAC will be challenging Florida’s Internet Identifier requirement in the