Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
California: Major changes are coming to the country’s largest (over 105,000 individuals) and oldest (1947) sex offense registry. Anyone registered in California is listed for life; the state had become an outlier, one of just four states with such a harsh lifetime-registration law. Soon California will have a so-called tiered sex offense registry, the same type of scarlet letter machinery
Read moreWe occasionally post stories about the sentencing disparity between male and female teachers who get caught having sexual relations with their students. A teacher from east London, UK, was sentenced to 16 months in jail for a sexual relationship with her 15 year old student. Since this took place in another country, we don’t post this to point out how
Read moreNews Regarding Florida Sex Offender Registry Laws An Amended Complaint was filed this week in the Miami-Dade Sex Offender Residency Restriction challenge. The original action, which was brought in 2014 by the Florida Action Committee and Individuals who were legislated into homelessness by the Miami-Dade Ordinance which prevented registered sex offenders from living within 2500 feet of a school, was
Read moreHaving sex with a 16-year-old in Indiana is legal but sending one nude photos isn’t, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled this week. The court’s unanimous 5-0 ruling means that Sameer Thakar, a former teacher at North Central High School, will go on trial for allegedly sending a 16-year-old girl from Oregon a nude image of himself in 2014, The Indianapolis
Read moreNews about Florida Sexual Offenders A man incarcerated at the Wakulla Correctional Institute Annex, a Florida prison, was killed on Monday. He was a sex offender being held in a protective management program at the prison. While very few details are being released concerning his death, the 36 year old man was said to have been killed by another inmate.
Read moreNews from SCOTUS on Sex Offender Laws Please click the link below to hear J.J. Prescott, a University of Michigan law professor and expert on sex offender laws, talk about the state of the sex offender registry in Michigan, in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision not to review a lower court’s ruling that the registry violates Ex Post
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