Florida’s 2nd DCA offers relief for terminal man confined in civil commitment.

Florida really loves to keep people on it’s sex offender registry and locked up. There are nearly 80 thousand people on Florida’s sex offender registry but fewer than 30 thousand are actually in the community. Of those in the community, we have so many who are elderly or too physically impaired to be a danger to anyone, yet we still

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MI: lawmakers debate changes to states sex offender registry law

Michigan lawmakers are debating how to overhaul the state’s sex offender registry after a federal appeals court ruled sections of the law are unconstitutional, but Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is contending the proposed fixes don’t repair the law’s flaws. As Democratic and Republican elected officials wrestle over the best solution to a highly charged issue, a federal judge has freed

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Come On!!! Attorney for killer of Mattieo Condoluci claims he didn’t originally intend to murder.

The Attorney for James Fairbanks, who shot Mattieo Condoluci to death a couple of weeks ago, is claiming he “didn’t intend to kill him”. REALLY?!?! So he just found him on the registry, showed up at his door with a gun, shot him inside his home and then sent an email to the news station describing his motivation for murdering

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The Fallacy of Stigmatizing an entire group because of the few “bad apples”

Weekly Update #91 Dear Members and Advocates, As we begin to emerge from the coronavirus shut-down, we enter another period of unrest and uncertainty. Across this country, groups of people are hitting the streets to protest the tragic and senseless killing of George Floyd. George was an African-American man, who was killed during an arrest in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The officer

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Inmate asks to be civilly committed because he will have no opportunities as a registrant

Occasionally we come across a case where an individual asks for some unorthodox relief. A case out of the District of Arizona, United States v. Self, is such as case. Richard Self asked the court to order him civilly committed upon his release because, “he has no intention of registering as a sex offender “for something he did not do,”

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