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The Supreme Court issued an interesting decision earlier today in United States v. Hemani. Before anyone gets excited, the case is about the Second Amendment — not sex offender registration laws. But some of the Court’s reasoning may sound familiar to anyone who follows registry issues and the arguments can be useful. The government argued that because Mr. Hemani used

The small town of Jay is set to appoint a convicted sex offender as its new town manager. Current Town Manager Eric Seib has been working part time since September and on July 3 will officially retire from the position. April Watson, who was made operations manager by unanimous vote of the Jay Town Council on the same night Seib

This is a question we occasionally hear: If there are approximately 90,000 people on Florida’s registry, why does the Florida Action Committee have only 3,300 members? Do the other 86,700 agree with the registry? Hell NO! Like many advocacy organizations, FAC represents and fights for a population much larger than its membership. The reality is that many people who could

One of the most common criticisms of internet sting operations is that there was never an actual child involved. If the “victim” was really an undercover officer sitting behind a computer screen, can there truly be a victim at all? The criminal conviction itself is not the surprising part — that question has largely been settled by decades of case

Police arrested a man in Florida for attempted child abduction in a town he had never visited, and the only evidence linking him to the crime was an AI facial recognition hit. Represented by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), he is now suing the officers and agencies who put him through it. In November 2023, police in Jacksonville Beach,

The United States Sentencing Commission (USSC) is currently soliciting public comments on federal sentencing guidelines and sentencing policy priorities. For those unfamiliar with the Commission, the USSC is an independent agency within the judicial branch of the federal government. It is responsible for developing sentencing guidelines and policy statements used by federal courts throughout the country. The Commission also regularly