Florida Action Committee (FAC)

The ACLU has filed it’s appellate brief on behalf of Florida Action Committee and several homeless registrants living along the railroad tracks in Miami-Dade County. The Brief, which can be read by clicking this link is excellent. The substance of the argument is that the application of Miami-Dade’s 2500 foot residency restrictions in Miami-Dade is particulary punitive and therefore constitutes

For Immediate release:                                                                             Contact Person: April 4, 2016                                                                                                 James H. Maynard, 973-540-0054 [email protected]   New Jersey Advocacy Group Calls for Reform of Sex Abuse Laws   TRENTON, NJ—James H. Maynard, Morristown attorney, and Executive Director of Sexual Abuse Ends Now (SAEN), Inc., a grassroots non-profit advocacy organization, challenged lawmakers on the NJ Assembly Judiciary Committee on Monday, April 4th

The US Supreme Court decided in favor of a registered sex offender in Nichols v. United States.  The SCOTUS decision came out today and it is the first time in recent memory that the Court decided in favor of a registrant. The decision ruled that a convicted sex offender did not have to update his status on the federal sex

“No experts support residency restrictions for sex offenders” is the conclusion of law professor and researcher Eric Janus in an article in Minnesota Lawyer. “I don’t think you can find any experts — or a person who actually deals with sex offenders — who thinks residency restrictions are effective,” said Janus. “It’s amazing and quite uniform. That goes from Departments

This week, State Attorneys released surveillance video and 911 call recordings from the night of Cherish Perrywinkle’s abduction. Let’s start by saying every member of the Perrywinkle family was horribly victimized by this tragic event and presuming the suspect, Donald Smith, did the crime, he deserves everything the justice system will impose on him and more! That said, the information

An appeals court has ruled the public cannot be excluded from a courtroom when a judge is considering whether a sex offender should be committed indefinitely after his prison sentence has expired. The unanimous ruling this week by three judges on the Fourth District Court of Appeals upholds a Broward County circuit judge who, in January, ruled NBC 6 was