Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
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
Read moreFor 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
Read moreWeekly 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
Read moreAfter 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)
Read moreThe 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
Read moreThe panoply of laws that govern the lives of individuals convicted of sex crimes after they have served their sentences is overwhelming. As this web of civil regulation has “grown into a byzantine code governing in minute details” how these people must live day-to-day, questions about these laws’ legitimacy and constitutionality are being litigated around the country. Several courts have
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