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Every enforcement system runs on two currencies: authority and money. The authority is written into statute. The money is harder to see, because it does not sit in one place. It is scattered across federal grant conditions, state appropriations, county budgets, court dockets, jail rosters, and technology contracts—each justified on its own terms, each defensible in isolation, and each part

FAC has received a lot of media attention this week because of our lawsuit challenging Florida’s sex offender registry. Some of that coverage has been in mainstream media, and some has been across social media. The mainstream media coverage has been professional, factual, and largely neutral. The comments underneath those stories and on social media, however, have been a different

The oldest son of Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., was arrested on charges of sexual exploitation of a child, authorities said Monday. Tyler Boebert, 21, of New Castle, Colorado, was arrested Sunday on a warrant on “multiple charges,” the Garfield County Sheriff’s Office said in a press release. Court records show he was arrested on five felony counts, including three counts

As anyone who cares about mass incarceration knows, bad policies often spread faster than the facts, especially when their rhetoric targets deep-seated fears. There may be no better example of such upside-down policymaking than conviction-based public registries, starting — but not ending — with sex offense registries. Registry proponents argue that a searchable public database that provides personal information about