Florida Action Committee (FAC)

Last fall, attorneys Ray Taseff and Dante P. Trevisani with the Florida Justice Institute filed an injunctive and declaratory relief request for the plaintiff who is being forced to acquire and display a driver’s license that brands him as a SEXUAL PREDATOR and broadcasts the government’s message that he is a danger to the public. Two of our FAC members,

By Dwayne Daughtry (Raleigh, NC) First published at NCRSOL (North Carolinians for Rational Sexual Offense Laws) Imagine being judged for a crime you’ve already atoned for, condemned to a life where your freedom is a mirage. This is the reality for many former sex offenders who, even after being successfully removed from one state’s registry, find themselves ensnared in a Kafkaesque web

By Chelsea L. Arnold Arnold states that “sex offender registration and civil commitment laws speak to the need for a complete overhaul of the U.S. Criminal justice system.”  The U.S. desires punishment over rehabilitation.  “…until the tough-on-crime turn starting in the mid 1970’s, rehabilitation was a key part of the U.S. penal system.” Arnold is with Seattle University’s Department of

All people will agree that victims of sexual abuse need treatment, but the U. S. does not place a great emphasis on perpetrators of sexual abuse who themselves were sexually abused as a child.  Punishment is the practice in this country rather than prevention. Having a family member who was sexually abused throughout his childhood, I was unable to understand

Our Ex Post Facto I case in the Southern District is currently in standby but is still alive. Our next focal point for our FAC Legal Leam is to go after proximity and residency ordinances that supersede the state statute.  Anyone who has been affected by residency or proximity ordinances, and has not already done so, should fill out a

“The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld North Carolina’s sex offender registration law.”  (The Carolina Journal, “Federal Appeals Court upholds NC sex offender registration law,” August 9, 2024) “Two nonprofit groups had challenged the law in federal court as violating offenders’ constitutional right against ex post facto punishment.” “A unanimous three-judge appellate panel agreed with a trial court