Weekly Updates

Weekly Update #112 Dear Members and Advocates, On Friday, the world lost Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Her death was a great loss to the Court and to those who shared her ideologies, but it was also a great loss to our cause. RBG was one of only two Justices that dissented against the majority opinion in Smith v. Doe,

Weekly Update #111 Dear Members and Advocates, The California Bill that we wrote about last week was signed off by Governor Newsom. That’s good news. What continues to boggle the mind is how two stories can present completely different perspectives on the same set of facts and how so many people will buy into (and I hate to use this

Weekly Update #109 Dear Members and Advocates, Something good was spun so horribly wrong that it’s worthy of being the first thing we mention in this week’s update. California State Senator Scott Wiener set out to eliminate a significant disparity in the state’s sex offender registration laws that discriminated against LGBTQ youth.  The way the law exists, a judge has

Weekly Update #107 Dear Members and Advocates, It’s so hard to explain something you don’t fully understand yourself. I’ll start with a basic fact: There’s no “Federal Registry.” When we go to re-register or report changes, we show up at our County Sheriff’s Office. That information gets entered into a database (registry) that’s maintained by the Florida Department of Law

Weekly Update #106 Dear Members and Advocates, It has been a disappointing week. Yesterday, Brevard County Commissioners voted in favor (only one Commissioner voted against) of amending their proximity ordinance to include private businesses. From watching the simulcast of the meeting, it appears passing the ordinance was a foregone conclusion, but nonetheless it was disappointing to watch. Our concern is

Weekly Update #105 Dear Members and Advocates, Before modern technology existed we had the public square. It was an open area, generally in the heart of a city, where people would gather to exchange information. If you couldn’t make it to the public square you would miss out on all the community discourse. Cutting you off from the public square