Florida Action Committee (FAC)

Students throughout Maryland are now safer in school. Following a Project Baltimore investigation, Governor Larry Hogan has signed a new law making Maryland the first state in the country to ban registered sex offenders from being students inside public schools. The new law bans convicted sex offenders from attending Maryland public schools, while setting up alternative means to educate them

The council says the bill would allow the parole board to release people convicted of violent sex crimes as long as they’re signed up for community-based treatment and are considered a manageable risk. It would also prevent treatment providers from limiting an offenders contact with children without a court order and would create a new risk-based sex offender registry. A

The two guards who fell asleep and then fudged their reports the night Jeffrey Epstein, perhaps the most high-profile inmate in the BOP who was supposed to be on “suicide watch”, apparently killed himself, were given a deal. Deferred prosecution and no jail time. Epstein was held in an observation cell, surrounded by windows, where lights were left on and

It took a Webster County jury a little over two hours to decide that vigilante justice has no place in the American criminal justice system. The jury convicted Eric Todd Hall, 45, of first-degree murder for the death of his fellow Fort Dodge Correctional Facility inmate Thomas Daleske on Thursday afternoon. Hall was accused of killing Daleske, 59, in the

A three-judge panel previously struck down the law, finding registry requirements for sex offenders moving to Indiana are unconstitutional. Indiana argued before the full Seventh Circuit on Thursday that state law does not place unfair registration requirements on sex offenders moving to the Hoosier State. At issue is a provision of the Indiana Sex Offender Registry Act requiring people convicted