Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
Weekly update for December 16, 2025. This is recording number 344. Dear Members and Advocates, The Clements case currently pending in the Middle District of Florida asks the question, “whether [] residency restrictions, considered in combination with the registration and reporting requirements” render Petitioner “in custody” for purposes of filing a habeas corpus petition. On July 9, 2025,
Read moreA transitional home for sex offenders was proposed in a Huntingdon County community, which led to dozens of residents showing up to a special meeting about it Monday night. At the meeting, several Jackson Township residents shared their concerns about potential transitional housing in the community. However, township and nonprofit leaders reassured the public that this will not be happening.
Read moreV.B. was living in his home in Warren, Ohio when he caught a sex offense case. Fortunately for V.B., the conviction did not result in a prison sentence; instead, he was placed on probation. After his October 2025 conviction, V.B. did exactly what the law required – he reported his residence. That residence, where he had been living long before
Read moreThe recent report that Michael Jolley stepped away from his role as manager of Bury FC (a soccer team in the UK) after his past came to light raises a question we keep coming back to: at what point does a completed sentence for a sex offense ever end? Jolley was not accused of any new misconduct, nor was there
Read moreLast week, a registrant in Mooresville, North Carolina was arrested after conducting on-the-job training of two teenage co-workers at a McDonald’s. There were no allegations of sexual misconduct, no claims of inappropriate behavior, and no suggestion that the instruction was anything other than routine workplace training. The arrest raises a simple but important question: should working at McDonald’s be a
Read moreOn Dec. 3, 2025, Judge James J. Panchik of the Court of Common Pleas of Armstrong County, ruled SORNA’s internet identifier provision is unconstitutionally vague. The Com. v. Michael Diebold case arises from a new failure‑to‑provide‑accurate‑registration‑information charge filed after the defendant, in litigating a habeas petition in an earlier SORNA case, disclosed a list of 66 websites he used and
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