FAC Weekly Update 2025-04-28-SO Residency Restrictions (SORR)

Recording #306.  Dear Members and Advocates, We have to do something about Sex Offender Residency Restrictions (SORR). A society that is characterized by suffering, oppression, and a general state of misery, is referred to as “Dystopian.”  So in a dystopian move last year, Florida passed legislation that effectively criminalized homelessness. Starting this past October, sleeping in any public space became

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Texas city passes residency restriction to banish registrants

Politicians are becoming more brazen in their actual reasons for passing sex offender residency restrictions. In this news story, the sheriff was quoted: Chief Landon Swan of the Hereford Police Department explained the rationale behind the ordinance, stating, “What we’ve found is if we utilize all these different locations with the 2,000-foot radius, it actually lets us cover almost the

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Win in AL: 11th Circuit deems Alabama sex offender restrictions too harsh

Alabama cannot completely prohibit convicted sex offenders from cohabitating with minors, according to a 11th Circuit Court of Appeals panel on Wednesday. After being convicted of one count of possession of child pornography in 2013 and serving his sentence for the crime, Bruce Henry married and his wife gave birth to a son, but state law prohibits sex offenders from

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