Florida Action Committee (FAC)

With the promise of saving taxpayer dollars to house a growing prisoner population during a cyclical crime wave in the early 1990s, Florida decided to experiment with private prisons. From the start, those involved in the push to privatize were tainted with ethical conflicts, and more than two decades later politics still rule the privatization issue while cost savings have

A registered sex offender wants the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate a North Carolina law that bans him from accessing Facebook and other social media sites, in Packingham v. North Carolina, No. 15-1194. Fifteen law professors, including former presidential candidate Lawrence Lessig and free speech guru Eugene Volokh, are supporting the First Amendment challenge in a friend of the court

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A Wisconsin registered sex offender is not the first to chose continued incarceration better than the forced homelessness that residency restrictions effectively impose. The below map shows the areas off-limits to registered citizens in Milwaukee As you can see from the limited areas in white, it doesn’t leave much of the city available for a registrant to find housing.  

A hearing on the government’s Motion to Dismiss the International Megan’s Law challenge is scheduled to take place on July 27th in Oakland, California. California RSOL in conjunction with RegistrantTAG is coordinating the permits for demonstration in the plaza in front of the courthouse. More information to follow. We recognize that California is on the opposite end of the country,

Yesterday, a district court judge dismissed a case against a registered citizen who was charged with violating their residency restrictions. This could be the first instance that chips away at that state’s SORR (sex offender residency restriction) that was passed this past October. Attorney Mike Goodwin, who represented the client in that case also represents a small class of 11