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A documentary about how lobbyist Ron Book harnessed his political power to pass the toughest sex offender laws in the nation and its impact on the lives of those forced to live under the laws will premier at the Tribeca Film Festival, taking place April 13 – 24th in Manhattan. The description of the film appears below: Untouchable, directed by

A Tokyo court has ordered that Google remove any results linked to the arrest of a man, after a judge ruled that he deserves to rebuild his life ‘unhindered’ by online records of his criminal history. Citing the right to be forgotten, the Saitma district court demanded the removal of all personal information online related to the conviction. While the

The following was sent to FAC by a member:   FEBRUARY 22, 2016.     The travel of an average hard working American nobody, to one of the most hated person’s in America. a life sentence of exclusion from family, friends and society. Death takes many forms. I now know there is such a thing as the living dead. Due to a

The U.S. criminal justice system is broken and needs to be fixed is a message you rarely hear from a well-respected senior federal judge. But that’s exactly what Judge Jed Rakoff of the Southern District of New York detailed during a keynote address at the 11th Annual Harry Frank Guggenheim Symposium on Crime in America at John Jay College of

Today the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Nichols v. US. The case that will decide whether a registrant had an obligation to update his registry after leaving the country. The transcript can be found here: https://floridaactioncommittee.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Nichols-v-United-States-Supreme-Court-Transcript.pdf The transcript shows two things: 1) If the registration requirements are so confusing that the most brilliant legal minds can’t seem to figure

Yesterday made US Supreme Court history. Justice Clarence Thomas spoke in open court for the first time in over a decade! Justice Thomas, presumed to be the “strong silent type” had not asked the parties a question or made a comment in over ten years, but yesterday he ended the long-standing streak by asking some questions in a case where