Florida Action Committee (FAC)

A Federal Judge in the Northern District of Illinois has DENIED the IL Department of Correction’s Motion to Dismiss in a case challenging the DOC’s policy of restricting internet access to parolees. The plaintiffs, through their rock-star attorneys, Adele Nicholas and Mark Weinberg, are persons who are required to register as sex offenders who are challenging the IL DOC’s policy.

Several law enforcement agencies teamed up to arrest 67 noncompliant sexual predators and sexual offenders during a seven-month operation called “Parking Lot Party,” a news release said. The Osceola County Sheriff’s Office, United States Marshals Service, Florida Department of Law Enforcement and State Probation and Parole conducted a joint operation to verify the compliance of the 550 registered sexual offenders

In Florida, registration is for life. We have people with 20, 30 year old convictions who are still on the list, have to comply with a long list of requirements, and if they don’t – it’s a felony. Take, for example, the case of C.B. (no need to use his real name and have another harassing link up when he’s

But the question of whether [juveniles] should be on the registry is at the center of an ongoing federal civil rights lawsuit against the New Jersey Attorney General that is seeking to eliminate Megan’s Law registration for all juvenile sex offenders in New Jersey. The lawsuit raises other questions. Is the the community in more danger without him on that

Herbert Stevens met the love of his life when he was 14, and they have been together ever since — now married and with three children. When he and Candy first started dating, his now mother-in-law was angry. Candy was only 12.  Three years into their romance, Candy’s mother reported Stevens for statutory rape when he was 17. Regretting the decision, she later