IMPORTANT: Were you given additional paperwork?

If you were given any paperwork or notices concerning the registry or your responsibility with respect to registration aside from what is given to you during your regular registration or re-registrations, please send a copy of it to [email protected]. We have been advised that individuals in St. Lucie County were given notices concerning their responsibility to register Internet Identifiers which

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CA: Federal lawsuit challenges Simi Valley Halloween sex offender law for second time

For the second time in five years, a federal lawsuit is challenging the constitutionality of a Simi Valley law that bars registered sex offenders listed on the Megan’s Law website from opening their doors to trick-or-treating children on Halloween. The law, enacted by the City Council in September 2012, also forbids the registered sex offenders from decorating the outside of their

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Movie The Untouchables Shows Human Side of Sex Offenders in Miami-Dade Cy Florida

Weekly Update 2017-09-19 Dear Members and Advocates, Last week, two short-form versions of David Feige’s documentary, Untouchable, were released. One version highlighting the story of an individual on the registry who probably doesn’t deserve to be there for life – intended to humanize those behind the label and remind the public that “sex offenders” are not all beady-eyed dirty old

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CA: Gov. Brown supports bill sent to him that would end lifetime listing of many sex offenders on public registry

After an emotional debate, state lawmakers on Saturday gave final legislative approval to a controversial bill that would end the lifetime listing of many convicted sex offenders on a public registry in California. The bill, which was shelved then revived, was sent to the governor on the last day of the legislative session with Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher (D-San Diego)

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Shawna: A Life on the Sex Offender Registry

The following was posted on the Marshall Project and written by David Feige: met Shawna a year into filming “Untouchable,” a documentary that examines sex offender laws through the lives of individuals on the sex offender registry. It was at an Oklahoma treatment center where she was participating in a mandatory group therapy session. She was there because fifteen years

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