Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
Another law went into effect last month in Florida that has nothing to do with sex offenders but can disproportionately affect persons on the registry. It is now illegal (a misdemeanor) to have a frame on your license plate. An arrest for this violation can cause you to be arrested and an arrest can prevent you from EVER being removed
Read moreCrime is not gender-neutral, according to Franca Cortoni. Women commit far fewer sexual offenses than men, and their risk of re offending after returning to the community is also much lower. A new meta-analysis based on data for 4,208 women shows a recidivism rate of just three per cent over 15 years. You can read the full study here.
Read moreWe’ve received emails from members that they have received postcards from a company called “Offender Reputation and Registry Removal (O-rep)” and with the website https://o-rep.org/. The site claims to offer “Reputation Removal” and “Registry Removal”, that his company can help “get you off the registry”. It talks about “petitions that are over $25,000” but that his membership is only $67.22
Read moreWeekly update for November 25, 2025. This is recording number 340. Dear Members and Advocates, Back in 2014, then-Florida Representative Matt Gaetz pledged to make Florida “scorched earth” for sexual predators. Ironically — given his own later involvement in a federal sex-trafficking investigation — his vision became reality. Over the last decade, Florida hasn’t just gotten tougher on past sexual offenders, it
Read moreIn 2023, a Minnesota man, 27-year-old Levi Axtell was charged with second-degree murder after admitting he fatally beat a 77-year-old man with a shovel and then finished him off with a large moose antler. Axtell claimed that the man — a convicted sex offender — had stalked and groomed his young daughter, though these claims lacked independent corroboration. As the
Read moreThe U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently issued its decision in US v. Cohen, affirming a federal conviction and sentence tied directly to sex offender registry enforcement. In this case, James Cohen accepted money from an individual required to register under SORNA in exchange for falsely allowing him to use Cohen’s address as his residence. Cohen then
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