FAC Weekly Update 2025-05-20-The Future of First Amendment Protections

Dear Members and Advocates, We will start this weekly update with a strong disclaimer… The Florida Action Committee unequivocally condemns the creation, possession, or distribution of child sexual abuse materials (CSAM), whether real or AI-generated. That said, as legal definitions and criminal punishment expand, as they have in recent years, to include AI-generated images (content not involving real children) or

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Trinidad and Tobago: Police warn against sharing sex offender registry info

Police are warning the public that sharing information from the local sex offenders registry website can result in a three-year prison sentence. Police legal officer Zaheer Ali issued the warning while speaking at the police’s weekly media briefing on May 27. He added the site, which currently has just 36 people listed, should be used only for the sensitization of

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Jamaica: Advocate says making names public could be harmful

Making Jamaica’s sex offender registry public could do more harm than good, warns human rights activist Carla Gullotta. Various incidents, including the sexual assault of two sisters in Old Harbour, St Catherine, by a man who had served time in prison for a previous sexual offence, has once again sparked calls for greater transparency and public access to the registry.

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Blurring the lines: Is this guy actually a sex offender?

Here’s an interesting case out of the UK (where noticeably a lot of “sex offender” news stories are coming lately). It’s a case that challenges our understanding of justice, rehabilitation, and the labels we assign people. A man was convicted for possessing indecent images of children. A serious, serious crime. However, the unsettling detail is that the man was 18

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