Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
FAC has sent a letter to the Miami-Dade Homeless Trust after the City of Miami is about to impose a new ordinance allowing officers to arrest homeless registrants without the safeguard offered to other homeless individuals – the offer to be housed in a shelter. We have copied all Miami-Dade County Commissioners and are sending copies of the letter to
Read moreNearly 1/3 of persons required to register as sex offenders in Miami-Dade are homeless. That’s an insane statistic. They are not homeless because they want to be. They are legislated into homelessness because of the County’s “Lauren Book Child Safety Act” that sets a 2500 residency restriction. They are not refusing emergency shelter. They can’t go to an emergency shelter
Read morePierce County, Washington, has agreed to pay $9.5 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that failures in jail policies, supervision, and staff training allowed a man convicted of a sex offense to be brutally attacked by other inmates. Whether you agree with someone’s crime or not, this case shines a light on a reality that is too often ignored: people
Read moreWeekly update for July 28, 2026. This is recording number 383 Dear Members and Advocates, On July 27, 2006, President George W. Bush signed the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act into law. Named after a six-year-old Florida boy, whose abduction and murder shocked the nation, the Act promised to protect children from people convicted of sex offenses.
Read moreToday, July 27, marks the 20th anniversary of the enactment of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006. The law was passed with the stated goal of improving public safety and protecting children. Two decades later, however, its legacy has been one of ever-expanding registration requirements, lifetime public shaming, and collateral consequences that extend far beyond any
Read moreIn a unanimous decision rendered yesterday, the Michigan Supreme Court struck down a key piece of the state’s Sex Offenders Registration Act — the so-called “recapture” provision, which forced people with old, pre-1995 sex offense convictions back onto the registry decades later if they were later convicted of any unrelated felony, sexual or not. James Ellis Jr. pleaded guilty to
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