CALL TO ACTION: Oppose Miami Beach’s Plan to Criminalize Homelessness

UPDATE 9/12/2023 Open Flyer Please join the Racial Equity MCARE Zoom call  1pm Tuesday, September 12th, devoted entirely to discussing the Miami Beach City Commission’s meeting, 8:30 am Wednesday, September 13th at 1901 Convention Center Drive, and their plan (see Commission Memo and proposed ordinance here) to deport and arrest unhoused people. We’ll circulate talking points in opposition to this inhumane ordinance, and discuss constructive alternatives

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FAC Affiliates in the Media: It’s Time to Reform the CT Sex Offender Registry

This year will mark the 25th anniversary of the public Sex Offender Registry (SOR) in Connecticut. Twenty-five years has been more than sufficient for researchers to study the impact of the SOR on public safety. Since sexual harm is so damaging to the fabric of our communities, our state government needs to take a level-headed look at the research that

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Successful Michigan Court Challenge Leads to Registry Removals…in Tennessee

Recall Does v Snyder, in which registrants’ challenge to the Michigan registry lead to its being declared punishment by the Federal Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. This victory has led to registry removals in Tennessee, which belongs to the same Federal circuit, and the prospect of substantial legal fees being owed by the state.  Read more from Nashville’s

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Can SC keep sex offenders on public registry after they move? SC high court says ‘yes’

People convicted of sex crimes can’t get their names removed from the sex offender registry simply by leaving the Palmetto State, the South Carolina Supreme Court ruled.   (Read the full story at the Post and Courier). In a federal lawsuit, “John Doe” and the American Civil Liberties Union alleged the State Law Enforcement Division policy unconstitutionally punishes people who no

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Weekly Update 2023-08-08-Diversion Programs vs Incarceration

Dear Members an Advocates, 2023 marks the 50th year since the U.S. prison population began its extraordinary surge. To date over five million people are under supervision by the criminal legal system, and nearly two million people, disproportionately Black, are currently incarcerated in our nation’s jails and prisons. This represents a 500 percent increase since 1973. How did we get here? Many of the conditions

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