Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
A new law going into effect in West Virginia this week requires people on the sex offender registry to pay an annual fee of $125. The law, which can be found here, will hopefully be challenged. Since the registry is supposed to be non-punitive, it is questionable whether a fee imposed as part of a criminal sentence or as a
Read moreA New Jersey appellate court ruled that individuals seeking removal must substantively prove they no longer pose a threat to public safety in any way, not just sexual reoffense. A Middlesex County judge granted two men’s petitions on the basis that they were not a substantial risk of sexual reoffense, but the state appealed arguing the court failed to consider
Read moreIn the latest installment of “Let’s Pretend This Will Make Us Safer,” the city of Joliet, Illinois is planning to construct a public park on an empty lot across from a group home housing 11 individuals on the sex offense registry. The land has long been vacant and unused, but now, conveniently, it’s becoming a park. One that just happens
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
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