Pastor Patti Appurlee featured in UK Story on Second Chance Sex Offenders

Most parents want their children to find a loving, happy and healthy relationship with someone who treats them respect, and Patti Appurlee believes her daughter Lexi, 25, has found a man who fits that description. Patti describes Lexi’s boyfriend Chris, 26, as hardworking, respectful and ‘one of the best young men I’ve ever met’, and the pair are considering starting

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Lawyers’ group slams U of C’s ‘de facto expulsion’ of sex offender

The Criminal Trial Lawyers’ Association is slamming what it says is the “de-facto expulsion” of convicted sex offender __________ from the University of Calgary. __________ was sentenced to prison for sexual interference with a 13-year-old girl, but his sentence, handed down in a Kamloops, B.C., courtroom, was delayed so he could finish his classes at the U of C. That

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SCOTUS refuses to hear PA case that found sex offender registry punishment.

The Supreme Court of the United States today denied a petition from the Cumberland County District Attorney’s Office to review a July decision from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that found the state’s current sex offender registration law was punishment and therefore could not be applied retroactively under ex post facto constitutional grounds! The ruling from the court was brief: PENNSYLVANIA

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ClearMyCase suit DISMISSED!

We are pleased to have learned that Judge Dimitrouleas DISMISSED the lawsuit filed against us by ClearMyCase. For some time we’d been receiving complaints from FAC members and registrants from other states about a company out of Texas called ClearMyCase.com. The company had been using the State Sex Offender registries as a mailing list to solicit “fees” to help “de-register”

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Las Vegas man says he killed over dislike of sex offenders, report says

A Las Vegas man told his neighbor he killed two homeless people behind a central-valley swap meet because one of them was a sex offender, court documents show. “The neighbor explained he had been sexually assaulted as a child and took offense to sex offenders,” 32-year-old Michael Thompson’s arrest report said. Prosecutors charged Thompson with two counts of murder Thursday

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Call To Action: Miami-Dade to Consider Bovo Amendment Tomorrow

Tomorrow, at the regular meeting of county commissioners, the “Bovo Amendment” will be considered. The Amendment seeks to remove a safeguard contained in the overnight camping ordinance that would require homeless who are sleeping overnight on public property, be afforded the opportunity to go to a homeless shelter before being arrested. In other words, Miami-Dade wants the ability to arrest

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