Weekly Updates

(Weekly Update #163) Dear Members and Advocates, This week’s update is somewhat of a continuation of last week’s. Last week, I shared an important revelation; that Smith v. Doe DID NOT find that registration is not punishment. It only found that the pre-2003 version of Alaska’s registry was not punitive. Following up on that concept and in anticipation of our

(Weekly Update #162) Dear Members and Advocates, Even though I’ve been deeply involved in advocacy for nearly a decade, I continue to learn new things and see things from a different perspective from time to time. I once had one of these “ah ha” moments when I realized that I’m not really advocating for reform, but I’m advocating for abolition.

(Weekly Update #161) Dear Members and Advocates, Things have not slowed down AT ALL for FAC  this summer! We’ve had a lot of movement in both Ex Post Facto Plus challenges and we filed our Out of State Challenge. In EPF I, which is currently in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, a reply brief was filed last week and

(Weekly Update #160) Dear Members and Advocates: This past weekend we celebrated Independence Day, commemorating the Declaration of Independence of the United States. The holiday celebrates this nation’s breaking free of the British on July 4, 1776, who they felt were oppressive and unjust. So what were some of these things the colonists were complaining about? Within the Declaration of

(Weekly Update #158) Dear Members and Advocates, Someone just posted something great on our website. He wrote, “well to show there may be hope, Bill Cosby just had his conviction overturned”. I don’t mean to imply this comment is great because of the overturned conviction. In fact, if someone was actually guilty and  evaded justice, the news is certainly not

(Weekly Update #157) Dear Members and Advocates, We’ve all heard the phrase “every parent’s worst nightmare” in the context of a sex offender. It usually conjures the image of an abduction and sexual assault or murder. But for every parent who happens to be required to register as a sex offender, our “parent’s worst nightmare” is that one day, some