News & Updates

The following is an excerpt from a very insightful article by Maya Schenwar. The article, which discusses the “prison outside prison” world of electronic monitoring, house arrest and other forms of confinement outside of traditional prison, insight-fully equates the Sex Offender Registry to incarceration. —— Although the left-leaning among us may respond to secret data collection and hidden cameras with

Senate Bill 0336 was filed yesterday. There is an accompanying bill filed in the House the day before (H0387) The bill creates Florida Statutes 921.2312 and makes substantial edits to 948.30 and 948.31, the summaries of which are: –          If someone is found guilty of or pleads no contest to a sexual offense after 10/1/15 they should get referred to

***UPDATE*** The bill was not heard yesterday – We will advise when it will be scheduled.   The lifetime GPS bill will be discussed in the Senate Criminal Justice Subcommittee today. This is a horrible, nonsensical bill that will place everyone convicted of a “sex offense” on lifetime GPS after October, 2015. It makes no distinction between someone that looks

Just to illustrate how humiliating and life-threatening the “sex offender” label can be, a Jacksonville man whose drivers license mislabeled him a sex offender sued for damages. Unfortunately, before his case could be heard, the man died of a heart attack. A clerk at the DHSMV office accidentally checked off a box that identified him as a sex offender. The

Maine is another state to add to a list of Supreme Courts who have found that enhancements added on to the sex offender registry constitute punishment. In this case, individuals who were added to the registry when, at the time of their offense, were not required to register, will likely see relief. The case of Doe v Anderson, decided two

There’s been a lot of attention on Jeffrey Epstein lately. The Florida registrant served 13 months for procuring an underage prostitute in 2008. Last month, a victim filed a lawsuit in which she alleges she also had sex with, among others, Prince Andrew. Those allegations have put the spotlight back on Epstein. Yesterday’s The Guardian reports that the US Virgin