Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
Dear Members and Advocates, It’s been filed! The “Ex Post Facto Challenge”, as we have come to identify it, has been filed in the Federal District Court for the Southern District of Florida. This was the challenge that has long been in the works and we’ve been waiting for. Although it’s been dubbed an “ex post facto” challenge (challenging the
Read moreHopefully you have taken the opportunity to read or listen to the recent oral arguments in the Gundy v. United States case. By many measures, it was a very good start in the Supreme Court case which challenges the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act of 2006 (SORNA) on the grounds that it unconstitutionally delegates legislative powers to the Executive.
Read moreA lawsuit was filed in Federal Court challenging the Florida Sex Offender registry. The suit is a facial challenge, filed on behalf of persons required to register in the State of Florida. It argues that the registry violates the Ex Post Facto clause of the constitution, constitutes Cruel and Unusual Punishment, violates Procedural Due Process, violates Substantive Due Process, is
Read moreRyan Will, a homicide prosecutor with the 7th Circuit State Attorney’s Office who is running for Judge, admitted to the St. Augustine Record, that he helped communities install parks for the express purpose of banning persons required to register as sex offenders (who are subject to residency restrictions) from the area. One of Will’s activities outside the courtroom is helping
Read moreArthur West, of Olympia Washington, was an active user of the Nextdoor.com app. That is, until they didn’t like what he had to say and then kicked him off the platform. Not one to be silenced, West sued Nextdoor and it’s CEO, using the precedent from a landmark sex offender case, Packingham v. North Carolina, that held the government cannot
Read moreA Writ of Certiorari has been filed to the Supreme Court of the United States, asking the highest court to hear Vasquez v. Foxx, a sex offender case out of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. The Vasquez case, which was previously reported on here. Upheld the eviction of two Illinois men who were required to register as sex offenders
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