Florida Action Committee (FAC)

Last week Florida’s 1st District Court of Appeals issued an order in Santiago-Morales v Florida that acknowledged it was bound by the precedent decision in State v. Shelley, 176 So. 3d 914, 916 (Fla. 2015), which held that double-jeopardy principles prohibit separate convictions based upon the same conduct. In other words; if you were charged with soliciting a minor over

According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), there are 843,260 registered sex offenders listed in the United States. Some will spend five, 10 or 40 years in prison, but in truth, when they get out and reenter society, offenders are doomed to a life sentence without bars. I’m no bleeding heart. I put hundreds of criminals

Much of the destructive, extra-punishment punishment we inflict on sex offenders is due to the widely held belief that they’re more likely to re-offend than the perpetrators of other classes of crimes. This has been the main justification for the Supreme Court’s authorization of sex-offender registries and for holding sex offenders indefinitely after they’ve served their sentences. Lower courts have

We don’t take pleasure in other’s tragedy or believe in kicking someone when they are down, so this post should not be taken the wrong way. Given the challenges we’ve had in Seminole and Brevard Counties with their outrageous proximity ordinances, it’ll be interesting to see what becomes of one of their Assistant State Attorneys who is responsible for prosecuting

Radley Balko (Washington Post), David Feige (Slate), and Lenore Skenazy (New York Post) tackle the big lie about ‘sex offenders’ – three really smart takes!   Oral argument in Packingham v. North Carolina – links to the transcript and archived audio are at the end.   –Bill Dobbs, The Dobbs Wire   The Washington Post | March 9, 2017 The big lie

Kudos to California Attorneys, Janice Bellucci and Dennis Riordan, and the Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws for sticking up for the rights of parents. The attorneys filed a lawsuit against the Ventura School District, on behalf of a parent of a second grader who is prevented from taking his child to and from school and attending her school events