Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
On August 22, 2025, Michael A. McGuire filed a federal civil rights lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. The case is McGuire v. Richardson, No. 2:25-cv-00681. It was the latest step in a fight he had carried on for more than a decade against the way Alabama treats people on its sex offender registry.
Read moreFor years, policymakers have been told that putting more information about people on public registries will automatically make communities safer. A recent debate in Australia suggests that some lawmakers over there are not so sure. Lawmakers there are pushing back against aspects of a proposed law known as Daniel’s Law, which would create a system allowing members of the public
Read moreSpouses and children of registrants in Missouri argued their homes’ inclusion on the registry left them socially ostracized in violation of the 8th Amendment. The plaintiffs argued that public access to the registry does not lower recidivism rates, that the psychological and social impacts the public registry inflicts upon innocent family members (spouses and children) was cruel, and that when
Read moreFormer Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert, who backed laws such as the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Amendments of 1996, the Child Abuse Prevention and Enforcement Act of 2000, the PROTECT Act of 2003, and the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 died this past weekend at 84. Hastert, was one of the biggest hypocrites in
Read moreFlorida Action Committee Opinion & Commentary “It’s the Law”: The Human Side of Registry Enforcement The questions that follow people on both sides of the badge By FAC Media October 3, 2026 · Updated October 4, 2026 As a military veteran, I have friends in law enforcement. I ask them these same questions on a personal level, and even they
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