Commercial Website Facilitates Harassment of Persons Forced to Register as Sex Offenders

A commercial website, sendmailfromhell.com/map is offering something deeply troubling. It provides a map interface tied to registrants in Florida and encourages users to target them. For a fee, they will send an anonymous “glitter bomb” to the recipient. This is a platform that is intended to facilitate harassment, intimidation, unwanted communication and potentially violence. Please help us get this website

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Bad News: EPF I Dismissed Again

We just received the upsetting news that the “Ex Post Facto I” case was dismissed AGAIN! This case was originated in 2018, dismissed, appealed to the 11th Circuit, remanded back to the district court (the same court that originally dismissed it), and was set for trial in a few months. The district court has once again dismissed the case. The

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A Word of Caution About AI “Legal Research”

In recent months, we have noticed a growing trend. Many people write to us explaining that they have researched their legal issue using AI tools such as ChatGPT and believe they have discovered cases that support their position. Unfortunately, in many instances the conclusions generated by AI are simply wrong. We regularly see examples where the cases cited do not

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Hinda Institute: Understanding The Registry with Mark Weinberg and Alex Yelderman

The Hinda Institute will be hosting an educational seminar this Wednesday Night, March 11, 2026, at 8PM Eastern Time on the topic of “Understanding the Registry”. Panelists will be Attorneys Mark Weinberg, Alex Yelderman, & Jeffrey Rabin. Hinda has graciously invited our members to attend the seminar, which will be held via Zoom. The event is co-hosted by the Decalogue

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WI: Supreme Court Says Online Providers’ Searches of Uploaded Photos Cannot be Suppressed as Warrantless Searches

The Wisconsin Supreme Court this week unanimously ruled that warrantless searches of digital files identified as containing potential child sexual abuse material are constitutional when the evidence originates from a private platform’s voluntary scan. In the case State v. Rauch Sharak, the court held that Google’s automatic scanning of users’ Google Photos for such material did not make the company

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