With Unity Comes Change
Staying on the topic of what crosses the line (see our last couple of posts), is an interesting case out Arizona. Plaintiffs filing anonymously brought a lawsuit in federal court challenging some provisions of a new law in Arizona. Among those provisions is having to register your own children and where they attend school. The State believes that a parent
Read moreLast week brought a significant development in the fight for registry reform. In a case involving Florida registrant Clements, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court’s dismissal of a habeas corpus petition and remanded the case for further proceedings. Why is this such a big deal? Because the court ruled that Florida’s sex offender residency restrictions—when considered
Read moreThe National Association for Rational Sexual Offense Laws (of which FAC is the Florida affiliate) and OK Voices (the Oklahoma affiliate of NARSOL) has filed a civil rights lawsuit in the Northern District of Oklahoma challenging the Constitutionality of an Oklahoma Statute that requires the driver’s licenses of persons required to register as sexual offenders be branded with the marking
Read moreegistered sex offenders living in Indiana no longer will be subject to a lifetime registration requirement in the Hoosier State simply for vacationing in Florida, where all sex offenders are listed on the registry for life. A new Indiana Supreme Court ruling clarifies a provision of state law that mandates sex offenders registered in another state, who subsequently relocate or
Read moreSome good news came out of the Indiana Supreme Court yesterday. Though the case does nothing to help us here in Florida (unless you plan on moving from here), it has an interesting tie to Florida and its lifetime registration requirement. In 2013, Peters was convicted of sexual abuse in Illinois. He was ordered to be on the Illinois sex
Read moreFAC is looking to connect with individuals currently on the registry who live with a serious physical or mental disability or have a cognitive impairment. More importantly, we are looking to connect with family members, friends, and caregivers of these individuals who can share the burdens these laws impose, not only on the registrant, but on themselves. How does your
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