Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
For the second time that the issue has come before the Supreme Court of Florida and for the second time that the decision was unanimous, the Supreme Court put an end to the FDLE’s attempt to reverse a Trial Court’s Order removing a registrant from the Florida Sex Offender Registry. Florida Statute Section 943.0435(11) provides a mechanism for people on
Read moreBoynton Beach, Florida — August 11, 2026 — The Florida Action Committee (FAC), a statewide nonprofit organization advocating for evidence-based criminal justice policies, today announced the filing of a sweeping federal lawsuit challenging Florida’s sex offender registration and restriction scheme as unconstitutional. Filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida (Case No. 4:26-cv-00388-MW-MJF), the lawsuit
Read moreA federal constitutional challenge out of New Hampshire has caught our attention not just because the plaintiff is on the sex offender registry case, but because it addresses an issue that increasingly affects many people on Florida’s registry: the criminalization of homelessness – where in many cases here in Florida, it’s involuntary. The American Civil Liberties Union of New Hampshire
Read moreToday, a coalition of 16 states, led by Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird and joined by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier (of course), filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear Hanaway v. Sanders (the case that challenged Missouri’s law requiring individuals on the sex offender registry to post a sign on Halloween stating, “No candy or
Read moreThe U.S. District Court has ruled against the plaintiff in a challenge to Florida’s requirement that the words “SEXUAL PREDATOR” appear prominently on the driver’s licenses of individuals designated as sexual predators. Bad news for this Plaintiff, obviously, but it’s not quite as bad as it seems. The plaintiff, Lane Kirkpatrick, argued that forcing him to carry and present a
Read moreIn a unanimous decision rendered yesterday, the Michigan Supreme Court struck down a key piece of the state’s Sex Offenders Registration Act — the so-called “recapture” provision, which forced people with old, pre-1995 sex offense convictions back onto the registry decades later if they were later convicted of any unrelated felony, sexual or not. James Ellis Jr. pleaded guilty to
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