Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
Weekly update for December 1, 2025. This is recording number 341. Dear Members and Advocates, We want to begin this week’s update with an urgent warning about a particularly insidious scam targeting people on the registry. By now you should already be prepared to receive calls from someone pretending to be with law enforcement trying to extort money. But that’s not
Read moreThe Ohio House of Representatives nearly unanimously passed House Bill 102, which would prevent people convicted of sex offenses or child-victim offenses from living within 2,000 feet of their victim’s home, and from loitering within 1,000 feet of the victim’s residence. Currently, Ohio law prohibits sex offenders from living near schools, day-cares, and child-care facilities — but does not bar
Read moreAnother law went into effect last month in Florida that has nothing to do with sex offenders but can disproportionately affect persons on the registry. It is now illegal (a misdemeanor) to have a frame on your license plate. An arrest for this violation can cause you to be arrested and an arrest can prevent you from EVER being removed
Read moreCrime is not gender-neutral, according to Franca Cortoni. Women commit far fewer sexual offenses than men, and their risk of re offending after returning to the community is also much lower. A new meta-analysis based on data for 4,208 women shows a recidivism rate of just three per cent over 15 years. You can read the full study here.
Read moreWe’ve received emails from members that they have received postcards from a company called “Offender Reputation and Registry Removal (O-rep)” and with the website https://o-rep.org/. The site claims to offer “Reputation Removal” and “Registry Removal”, that his company can help “get you off the registry”. It talks about “petitions that are over $25,000” but that his membership is only $67.22
Read moreWeekly update for November 25, 2025. This is recording number 340. Dear Members and Advocates, Back in 2014, then-Florida Representative Matt Gaetz pledged to make Florida “scorched earth” for sexual predators. Ironically — given his own later involvement in a federal sex-trafficking investigation — his vision became reality. Over the last decade, Florida hasn’t just gotten tougher on past sexual offenders, it
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