Florida Action Committee (FAC)

As part of the International Megan’s Law, the US Marshals Service has been notifying receiving countries when a registrant is traveling. You can imagine how the immigration officials in a country you are traveling to will react when they receive a warning from the US Marshals that you are arriving. Travelers have been intercepted upon arrival, interrogated and turned back

Within the past three weeks two teachers from Lake Howell High School were arrested, as usual this was picked up in the news cycle. What stands out to me is how the news reports these arrests, it is reported as just a matter of fact simply to state that it happened. Every October almost every news station has a segment

Like many parts of the country, sex offenders in Illinois are struggling to find housing because of all the restrictions imposed on them. A group of registrants who are being denied release from prison because they can’t find housing, are suing. One registrant involved in the lawsuit has remained behind bars for six years after his scheduled release date because

India has just approved promulgation of their Criminal Law to create a national database and profile of sexual offenders. While it is unclear whether the registry will be public (as it is in the United States) or for law enforcement only (as it is in all other countries that have sex offender registries, such as; Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom,

Colorado’s sex offender registry still hangs in limbo seven months after a judge said it violated the constitutional rights of former offenders, subjecting them to an extended punishment and public shaming. U.S. District Judge Richard P. Matsch’s ruling is the latest to reject states that are reaching for more stringent controls on sex offenders even after they have served their