Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
Dear Members and Advocates, Please join us tomorrow night for our monthly member call. The topic of the call will be a legal update covering recent court decisions across the country impacting people required to register, with a specific focus on the status of our Florida Ex Post Facto challenge. Our speaker will be attorney Val Jonas, of Weitzner &
Read moreDear Members and Advocates, Last week, our Legal Chair of Florida Action Committee attended the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) conference. The topic of this conference is “Shattering the Shackles of Collateral Consequences” and it focused on strategies to eliminate barriers to reentry and the enduring challenges that come along with a criminal conviction. As we know all
Read moreDear Friends, Tomorrow morning the House is scheduled to vote on H.R. 6691, the “Community Safety and Security Act of 2018.” This bill would rewrite the definition of a “crime of violence” in the federal code, resulting in nonviolent offenses being labeled as violent offenses. In addition to this expanded definition, the process to approve H.R. 6691 has been expedited,
Read moreA Pennsylvania Court ruled last week that a University Professor who was terminated after the discovery of a sexual offense 25 years in his past was fired unjustly and entitled to reinstatement and damages. in 1990, before the plaintiff became a Lock Haven University professor, he was convicted (as a 19 year old) of a sexual offense against a juvenile.
Read moreIt was one of the funniest episodes of Sasha Baron Cohen’s Showtime Series, “Who is America”. Cohen, disguised as Israeli “Colonel Erran Morad”, interviews former Alabama Senate Candidate Roy Moore. During the interview he shows Moore a device purportedly used by the Israeli military to detect pedophiles. Whenever the device goes near Moore it goes off! The gag wasn’t so
Read moreA Derby, KS man is on a mission to block a former sex offender from attending church. According to the Derby Informer, Joshua Kippenberger, is trying to get a church parishioner banned from St. Mary Catholic Church in Derby, because he is on the sex offender registry. The church, which has arranged for the man to be chaperoned and sit in
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