Adding Sex Offender Probation Conditions After Sentencing Not Permitted

Last week, the 2nd District Court of Appeals in Florida ruled that adding special sex offender conditions to probation after sentencing, where those conditions were expressly excluded at sentencing, doesn’t fly. In Jones v. State, Fla: Dist. Court of Appeals, 2nd Dist. 2018, the court reversed a lower court’s order that allowed the State to impose special conditions of sex

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Florida Sex offender beaten by fellow jail inmate dies

Sad news to report. The man we wrote about in last week’s weekly update (https://floridaactioncommittee.org/weekly-update-2018-07-10/) has died. James Mills was in jail after being arrested by the Pinellas County Sheriff’s office on June 12 for failure to register as a sex offender. For a F***ing registration violation!!! News reports state an autopsy will be done to “determine the cause of

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Article Reveals Suppressed Data Could Have Changed Sexually Violent Predator Programs

A new scholarly article from two professors of law (Tamara Rice Lave of the University of Miami School of Law and Franklin E. Zimring of UC Berkley School of Law), exposes how information was intentionally suppressed, resulting in “egregious mishandling of the Sexually Violent Predator (SVP) issue.” For decades we’ve been hearing “frightening and high” in Court decisions and from

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The Unconstitutionality of International Megan’s Law for Sex Offenders

Dear Members and Advocates, Last Week, a Federal Judge in the Central District of California dismissed a challenge to the International Megan’s Law (IML). In a 17 page opinion (which can be read here), comprised of mostly history of the law, the Court found that the complaint brought by the Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws (ACSOL) should be dismissed

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