Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
On Wednesday, the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit handed down a horrible decision affirming a lower court’s decision that effectively allowed a city to evict people required to register, from their homes. In Vasquez v. Foxx, 17-1061 (7th Cir. 2018) two men required to register as sex offenders were required to comply with a law that prohibited
Read moreDear Members and Advocates, The fact recitals from the court’s order in a case out of the Southern District of Illinois last week reads like a horror story. A corrections officer from Theodore Beasley’s unit at Shawnee Correctional Center tells the other inmates Beasley is a “child molester”. During the inevitable beating he received from another inmate, Sergeant Hicks could
Read moreThe FDLE has responded to our inquiry from May as to (a) what happens in emergency situations or when a registration office is not open, and (b) what is the definition of the term ‘day’, as it relates to the revision in the statute that requires IN PERSON notification of a change in permanent, temporary or transient residence. The response,
Read moreFrom the Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws: The federal judge to whom the IML lawsuit was assigned has canceled [JULY 9th] hearing on the government’s Motion to Dismiss the entire case. According to Judge John F. Walter, he will make a decision based solely upon the documents filed both in support of, and in opposition to, that motion. The
Read moreOver the past year or so we were warning our readers of a company based out of Texas targeting people required to register as Sex Offenders. A man by the name of John Fitzgerald Bordelon, operating a business called “ClearMyCase” was using several state’s sex offender registries to contact registrants, claiming they could help get them off the sex offender
Read moreA must watch video: How the sex offender registry killed my son.
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