Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
Not a good week for a couple members of law enforcement, as a former Trenton, NJ, officer got sentenced to life in prison for the sexual abuse of two minors and a Los Angeles, CA sheriff’s deputy was indicted by a grand jury on 18 counts of oral sex acts with a child, 12 counts of lewd acts on a
Read moreA recent article from BusinessInsider highlights why it is so difficult for anyone with a history of a sexual offense conviction (or even allegation) to find a job, housing, or integrate into the community. Nobody wants the “branding issue” of being associated with the person. The article explains this from the context of Rep. Matt Gaetz, who is currently running
Read moreA Multnomah County couple is suing Do Good Multnomah, a local non-profit, for allegedly kicking them out of their residence based on familial status. Megan and James Vanness were participants in Do Good Multnomah’s (DGM’s) “Motel Based Emergency Shelter Program,” according to the lawsuit filed in early August, which says DGM describes the program as a shelter that “has transitioned
Read more(Weekly Update #222) Dear Members and Advocates, When I was searching for First Amendment firms to help the registrants in Brevard County who were banned from their county commission meeting, I reached out to many nonprofit organizations that focus on freedom of speech. Surprisingly there are a lot of them. I sincerely believed that based on the extraordinary facts in
Read moreIn order for a law to violate the Constitutional prohibition against Ex Post Facto laws, it must be (a) retroactive, and (b) punitive. In 2018 the Village of Hartland, Wisconsin decided it had too many registrants living in it’s village, so it created a moratorium on “the establishment of “Temporary or Permanent Residence” by a “Designated Offender,” within the Village”
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