SC Legislature can’t keep delaying fix on sex-offender registry

Nearly a year ago, as The Post and Courier’s Seanna Adcox reminds us, the high court ruled unanimously that South Carolina’s toughest-in-the-nation sex offender registry is unconstitutional, because it gives an unappealable lifetime sentence to people most of us wouldn’t think of as dangerous sex offenders. And the Legislature did nothing. For nearly 11 months, and counting. Three lawmakers introduced

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Pennsylvania Sex Offender Appeals Florida Law Keeping Him On The Sex Offender Registry

A Pennsylvania man has launched an appeal after a Leon County circuit judge dismissed his challenge to a Florida law that kept him on a sexual-offender registry after a 10-day family vacation to Walt Disney World in 2015. The man, identified in court documents as John Doe, filed a notice Wednesday that he was taking the case to the 1st

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Brevard County Commission in Violation of First Amendment Rights

(Weekly Update #204) Dear Members and Advocates, You can’t say the Brevard County Commissioners didn’t see it coming. When they voted on a law to further restrict the exclusion zone for persons forced to register, and then excluded registrants from the public meeting held to discuss that proposal, you couldn’t design a more glaring violation of the First Amendment or

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The Dobbs Wire: Videos now online!

The Dobbs Wire:  Videos!   The videos are now online from a remarkable conference at Metro State University in St. Paul, MN, on April 8th.  An annual event devoted to mass incarceration matters, organizers made a big shift by dedicating this year’s conclave to sexual violence and the scandalous Minnesota Sex Offender Program (MSOP).  By various measures MSOP is the worst such

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ACSOL: ACSOL JOINS PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION IN CHALLENGE TO SORNA REGULATIONS

The Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws (ACSOL) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) to challenge the federal SORNA regulations that became effective in January 2022.  As a signatory to the MOU, ACSOL has agreed to serve as a named plaintiff in the lawsuit which will be filed in the Central district of

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Lawsuit reinstated in email address battle

A convicted sex offender has made a “plausible” claim that providing his email address and other internet identifying information to Connecticut officials violates his free speech rights, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday in reinstating his lawsuit against the state. The decision by a three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan mirrors other court rulings

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