Legal and Legislative

A Wisconsin law that requires certain sex offenders to wear GPS monitors for their entire lives doesn’t violate the Fourth Amendment, a federal court said. The state has a strong interest in protecting the public from repeat offenders and wearing the monitor imposes only a modest burden on the offender’s privacy rights, Judge Brett H. Ludwig said Tuesday for the

In Tennessee, lawmakers are trying to pass ‘Savanna’s Law’ to create a domestic violence offender registry. The legislation proposes the creation of a publicly accessible registry for individuals convicted multiple times of domestic violence offenses, similar to existing sex offender registries. But is it similar? Maybe the look and feel and general concept of publicly outing domestic violence offenders, but

The right to travel is a part of the ‘liberty’ of which the citizen cannot be deprived without due process of law under the Fifth Amendment. Indiana House Bill 1687 proposes that if a sex offender wants to move to another county, the supervising court in the transferring county has to issue an order authorizing the move and the supervising

A Kansas Senate bill barring registered sex offenders from school property got strong pushback Tuesday from some defense advocates who say it is based on inaccurate beliefs about offenders and would end up failing to keep children safe. The bill, submitted by Republican Sen. Kellie Warren of Leawood, stems from an incident on Feb. 8 in which a registered sex

Before the legislative session starts in March of 2025, there will be state senators and representatives at the legislative delegation meetings in all 67 counties.  It is a chance for our voices to be heard. FAC has five prepared speeches: Solutions for helping elderly people on the registry receive long-term healthcare (Read Speech on Protecting the Elderly) Collateral damages for

On March 25, 2024, Federal District Judge Robert L. Hinkle, of the Northern District of Florida, ruled that the requirement under Section 943.0435(4)(a) that people registered as sex offenders report in-person travel within the state of Florida to the FDHSMV violates substantive due process, and is thus unconstitutional. His order declared that this requirement is irrational and very burdensome for registrants. His