Weekly Updates

Weekly Update 2017-12-28 Dear Members and Advocates, It’s a strange thing… If you pay someone for sex, it’s considered prostitution and that’s a crime. But, if you pay someone for sex AND videotape it – that’s pornography, which is legal and protected by the first amendment of the constitution! There’s a similar paradox when it comes to consensual sexting among

Weekly Update 2017-12-21 Dear Members and Advocates, This holiday season, our warmest wishes go out to you and your families. For those who are able to spend the holidays with your family, cherish them. For those who are separated from family as a consequence of the registry, who are forced into homelessness or who are currently incarcerated, you are not

Weekly Update 2017-12-13 Dear Members and Advocates, It was a disappointing day in the Miami-Dade County Legislature, as the Commissioners on the Public Safety Committe passed through a proposed amendment that would allow police to arrest homeless sex offenders without offering them shelter, as they would for any other homeless individual. While disappointing, it was not unexpected. As expected, lobbyist

Weekly Update 2017-11-29 Dear Members and Advocates, One problem (of many) with registration requirements for Registered Citizens is that they are vague, confusing and subject to broad interpretation. Take, for example, the requirement to register a temporary address. Say you live in Tampa and you go to visit your relatives in Orlando for Christmas break. You plan to stay for