Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
Amanda LaRue, a “concerned parent” from Owasso, Oklahoma, spoke to News Channel 8 about a transient registered sex offender near her home. “He loads his car up every night, goes to the gas station, sleeps, and is back home,” LaRue said. “That’s how he’s skirting this law, of being a transient, and not having a permanent address. It’s because his
Read moreWeekly update for August 27, 2025. This is recording number 324. Dear Members and Advocates, Each morning a FAC volunteer scans media headlines from across the world to find relevant news to share with our readers. Yesterday, there were a bunch on the same story. The headlines on Pennsylvania’s ABC 27 read, “Florida sex offender arrested after receiving stolen property
Read moreThe Queensland government will introduce legislation to parliament today to establish a sex offender registry, but unlike it’s US counterpart the legislation will include safeguards aimed at stopping vigilantism and prohibiting people from targeting offenders on the registry. Rather than blasting registrants information out there publicly, and allowing others to scrape the database and create their own copycat websites, the
Read moreThe Queensland government will this week table legislation creating Australia’s first public child sex offender register. The Queensland legislation, to be known as Daniel’s Law, was named in honour of Sunshine Coast teenager Daniel Morcombe, who was abducted and murdered by a sex offender more than two decades ago. But will this new legislation actually work to make children (and
Read moreRobert Letham attacked XXXX XXXX after sneaking up behind him as he read a newspaper while both were in HMP Perth. Explaining the background to the slashing, defence advocate Kevin Jarvis stated: “He tells me that what brought this incident about is that (Sinclair) was known to be a sex offender – he knew that through news articles and others.
Read moreIn a bit of concerning news, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has decided to rehear the Henry case En Banc. In April, we reported a bit of good news out of the State of Alabama. A three judge panel of the 11th Circuit previously held that Alabama cannot completely prohibit convicted sex offenders from cohabitating with minors. Specifically, Bruce
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