Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
Weekly Update #127 Dear Members and Advocates, As the holidays are upon us, we wish all of you Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year. It’s hard to envision a year more messed up than 2020. Hopefully 2021 will bring a cure to the pandemic that has plagued the world, relief to stores, businesses and individuals who have been impacted
Read moreAs promised, the Ex Post Facto Plus case has not seen the end of the road. Yesterday, attorneys for the Does filed a Motion to Alter or Amend the Order. A copy of the Motion is below, but in lay terms it argues that the very recent 11th Circuit Court Case upon which the court relied should be distinguished from
Read moreThe Michigan Senate voted Wednesday to codify court-recommended changes in the state’s Sex Offender Registration Act. The legislation now only needs Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s signature to become law. State lawmakers approved altering registration protocols for sex offenders during its Wednesday session, fulfilling a 4-year-old mandate from the U.S. Court of Appeals. The federal court ruled in 2016 that it was unconstitutional to
Read moreWeekly Update #126 Dear Members and Advocates, When I started fielding some FAC member calls a number of years back, I remember the first call I received from someone caught in an online sting. The person was on Craigslist’s personals when he met someone who said she was in her twenties, they communicated back and forth, conversations became sexual, she
Read moreThis is a topic we wrote about several times over the last couple of months. We’re glad to see it’s getting some attention in this article, and hopefully more to come. The case sheds lights on the unique challenge of how to maintain sex offender registries when mental health issues due to age or other circumstances leave convicted offenders unable
Read moreThe City of Deltona, Florida is considering expanding their Sex Offender Residency Restrictions. A resolution was brought forward this past Monday to “add “Designated School Bus Stops, Libraries, and Churches to the list defining locations as to where children congregate so that distancing calculations as to living restriction where an individual convicted of a violation of F.S. Section 794.011, 800.04,
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