Florida Action Committee (FAC)

Win in Colorado:  A federal judge declared Colorado’s sex offense registry law unconstitutional!  The court ruled the law is *punishment* and went even farther, finding the law is such severe punishment (“cruel and unusual”) that it violates the 8th Amendment.  In addition the court found the law fails to deliver constitutionally mandated basic fairness (“due process”) and violates the 14th

In another big win yesterday, an Indiana appellate Court determined that a law banning sex offenders from schools is Unconstitutional as applied to parents of children attending that school whose cases pre-date the law. The Judge’s order found that restricting the registrant from his own child’s school was a “disability or restraint [that] is neither minor nor indirect”. It was

Earlier this week, the Florida Action Committee sent a letter to the County Commissioners for Miami-Dade County, requesting the repeal of the sex offender residency restriction that has caused over 250 individuals to live in squalor, without shelter or sanitation alongside active railroad tracks. A link to the letter can be found here: https://floridaactioncommittee.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Letter-To-M-D-County-Commissioners-08282017.pdf The letter also contains references to

A HUGE win out of Colorado, where a Federal Judge declared the Sex Offender Registry to be “cruel and unusual” punishment. In his ruling, which can be read HERE, he opined that the sex offender registry gives the public the “power to inflict punishments beyond those imposed through the court.” What is also significant from the Judge’s opinion is that

Below is another excellent decision, finding conditions of registration punishment and a violation of the Ex Post Facto clause of the Constitution: A 2015 law meant to prohibit certain sex offenders from entering school property is unconstitutional as it applies to a Howard County man who has already completed his punishment for his 2010 child solicitation conviction, the Indiana Court

NPR released a four-part series on “Sex Offenders and Public Safety”. You can use the following links to listen to parts one and two: https://cpa.ds.npr.org/wvtf/audio/2017/08/so_part_1.mp3 https://cpa.ds.npr.org/wvtf/audio/2017/08/so_part_2.mp3