Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
(Weekly Update #206) Dear Members and Advocates, In addition to working with FAC, I sit on a couple of boards and subcommittees with the goal of fostering successful reentry for individuals who are required to register. This morning’s monthly meeting of one particular subcommittee was held online and attended by some of the most dedicated and qualified people in our
Read moreFellow Warriors for Justice, It is with great pleasure that I send this report tonight. Late this afternoon, the Senate passed our registry reform bill by a vote of 42 to 0! While the bill certainly isn’t perfect, it is a great step forward, and for the first time, will offer registrants a possible path off the registry. I was
Read moreIn this week’s update, we sent out a plea to help an elderly man in South Florida find a stable home so that he can receive medical treatment for prostate cancer. He is only one example of those struggling to survive due to residency restrictions, especially when they have family waiting with open arms to welcome them into their homes.
Read moreI am hard at work on a new book. It begins at the end. It imagines we have created a world that is considerably more forgiving than our own. Where society has neither the right nor the inclination to treat a human being as a monster, indelibly branded as unworthy of membership, and where no transgression, no matter how severe,
Read morethe Prison Policy Initiative released Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2022, compiling national data sources to offer the most comprehensive view of how many people are locked up in the U.S. — and where they are being held — since the COVID-19 pandemic began. The report explains how the pandemic has impacted prison and jail populations, and pieces together the
Read moreThe United States has the most punitive criminal legal system in the world, containing 25 percent of the world’s prison population. Prisons and jails in the United States are overcrowded, unsanitary and dehumanizing. In comparison to many other nations, the United States employs prison as a response to offenses more frequently and incarcerates people for longer periods of time. The
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