Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
A very disappointing decision came out of the 5th DCA on Friday in a branded driver’s license case. An en banc (entire panel of the 5th District Court of Appeals) affirmed the conviction of a man who had covered the “sexual predator” stamp on his Florida driver’s license. The man made the same argument that several others had made, that
Read moreLast month we reported that Louis Clements won his appeal in the 11th Circuit. The Appellate court kicked the case back to the trial court, finding that the court didn’t properly consider whether sex offender residency restrictions are severe enough to constitute someone to be “in custody” for purposes of a Habeas Corpus petition. Today, the Middle District Court entered
Read moreYesterday, attorneys for Does #1-5, et al – Valerie Jonas and Todd Scher, filed a Response to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s Motion to Dismiss the Third Amended Complaint. This is the case that has been litigated in the Southern District of Florida since 2018, was dismissed once, appealed, and then remanded by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Read moreStaying 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
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