Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
You might think it’s repetitive for us to keep posting warnings about these scams, but we’re going to keep posting them until they are stopped or until law enforcement does something to stop them… or better yet, until the FDLE takes our information offline so we stop being victimized. The number of calls and emails we get each week “letting
Read more(Weekly Update #162) Dear Members and Advocates, Even though I’ve been deeply involved in advocacy for nearly a decade, I continue to learn new things and see things from a different perspective from time to time. I once had one of these “ah ha” moments when I realized that I’m not really advocating for reform, but I’m advocating for abolition.
Read moreSex offenders whose convictions predated 2011 changes to Michigan’s Sex Offender Registration Act do not need to comply with those changes, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. The 2011 requirements — which included bans on living within school safety zones and “onerous” in-person reporting requirements — constituted a new form of punishment that cannot be applied retroactively to past cases, a
Read moreI know what you’re thinking… This is GREAT news, but wasn’t the retroactive application of Michigan’s sex offender law already declared unconstitutional. Well yes… you’re thinking of the incredible Does v. Snyder case in the 6th Circuit FEDERAL appellate court (the state tried to take it to the US Supreme Court but they declined to hear it). This decision comes
Read moreWe thank Ms. Tachana Joseph-Marc for her opinion piece in the Florida Times Union: “Guest Column: Another missed opportunity for meaningful juvenile justice reform in Florida”. The major flaw in the vetoed bill, though, was that it excluded those whose offense as a juvenile was a murder offense or sex offense. https://www.jacksonville.com/story/opinion/columns/guest/2021/07/25/another-missed-opportunity-juvenile-justice-reform-florida/8012109002/?mc_cid=c40dd6c29e&mc_eid=fa93f8fd3d To Ms. Marc, I say: Thank you, Ms.
Read moreWhat we want the people of Lake County to understand: Knowing that these people have been taken off the streets at night should help all of us sleep better at night. Right? No. In these stings, they usually occur at adult-only websites where law enforcement individuals try to bait unsuspecting individuals to change from courting an adult to courting a
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