Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
Following comments by Miami-Dade Homeless Trust Chairman Ron Book in The Miami Times that there are “plenty” of places where a person subject to Miami-Dade’s 2,500-foot residency restrictions can live, FAC has written to the Homeless Trust with a simple question: Where are they? We’re asking the Trust to identify the housing it says is available, and to explain what
Read moreFlorida Action Committee Media Big Numbers Need the Whole Story Southwest Florida • October 7, 2026 Illustrative photo: Lukas Blazek / Pexels. I read Vanessa Norris’s October 7 report on Southwest Florida crime statistics for the Fort Myers News-Press and Naples Daily News, part of the USA TODAY Network. These cases are serious. Children deserve protection. Families also deserve the
Read moreThis story out of Manteca, California really frustrates me. The city cancelled a contract with a cleaning company that was contracted to clean out illegal homeless encampments after it was discovered that one of the owners was on the registry. During the awarding of the contract, the company submitted references attesting to the quality of work they do. The references
Read moreA federal judge in Idaho has issued a decision in Does v. Labrador, a case challenging Idaho’s sex offender registry under the Ex Post Facto and Double Jeopardy Clauses of the Constitution. The decision is not the result the plaintiffs wanted. On September 29, Judge David Nye granted Idaho’s motion for summary judgment, holding that Idaho’s registry scheme is a civil
Read moreThis is totally off topic, but a curiosity when considering the way sexual offenses are investigated and prosecuted (or not) when it comes to the powerful. Jeffrey Epstein is dead. Officially, suicide by hanging in his Manhattan jail cell in August 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges. You’d think he’d wait until after his trial – after all,
Read moreOn August 22, 2025, Michael A. McGuire filed a federal civil rights lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. The case is McGuire v. Richardson, No. 2:25-cv-00681. It was the latest step in a fight he had carried on for more than a decade against the way Alabama treats people on its sex offender registry.
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