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Last week we wrote a piece about what victims actually think of the registry. This week, a story in The Palm Beach Post raises another point related to Florida’s Marsy’s Law: What happens when the victim doesn’t want the outcome the State wants? According to the reporting, a coach pleaded guilty to offenses involving a 14-year-old student and was sentenced

A recent decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit illustrates just how far the system can go to keep a person on the registry from living where he wants to live—even when the proposed residence is otherwise perfectly lawful. The facts in Sera v. Zimmerman are remarkable. Steven Sera was was granted parole in February 2024,

On August 11, 2026, the Florida Action Committee filed one of the most ambitious civil rights lawsuits in the history of sex offense registry litigation. The caption alone runs for pages: Florida Action Committee v. Mark Glass, Case No. 4:26-cv-00388, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida, Tallahassee Division — naming the head of the

The only recognizable pattern in the Flagler County Sheriff’s jail bookings day after day for a year and a half has been the daily batch of redacted names reflecting the local agency’s detention, on behalf of federal immigration authorities, of migrants who may be deported. Three days ago, another pattern emerged: arrest after arrest of sex offenders charged with failing

Florida’s expanding plate-reader network, broad information-sharing rules, predictive tools, biometric surveillance, and public mugshot portals have outpaced the safeguards meant to constrain police power. On August 26, 2026, Gov. Ron DeSantis made a striking admission: automated license-plate readers, including cameras operated through Flock Safety, had become “out of control.” He still defended giving police effective investigative tools. But, he added,

FAC retained Dr. Kelly Socia as one of our experts in our recently filed lawsuit challenging (among other things) Florida’s sex offender residency and proximity restrictions. Dr. Socia is a Professor in the School of Criminology and Justice Studies and a Fellow for the Center for Public Opinion at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. He is the author of 50+