Please share the link to the decision.

We won the appeal, but lost in en banc, but we had three points so we lost on the ex post facto part but they sent our equal protection argument back to the district court and we won that on may 31st of this year

Hey There the cut off doesn’t matter right now I’m still fighting the case but if you got your case before July of 94 you are good.

Other than Florida’s i don’t think their or any other state’s registration laws toll the date from release of sanctions, the toll from the date of the offense.

Brian
That is awesome. Hope it helps many there. Our turn in Florida seems to be within reach at times, then at other times, light years away. We all have legal indigestion.

If you send it to legal@floridaactioncommittee.org it will be shared.

I just got the appeal decision a few minutes ago. The judges decided in our favor 2-1 I would like to upload it if possible

The notion that we need an org to fight these all the time everywhere is spot on. EVERYONE agrees, I think. The only reason we don’t already is lack of resources— donor funds + volunteer time. So we, and other NARSOL state affiliates, pick our battles with what we’ve got.

No. Thank you all for not being afraid to advocate for people with sex offenses and creating a platform to address this non-empathetic country we’re living in. Our family has been deeply affected by this and my cousin’s household has been torn apart. There is no way the punishment they give out to these people they could endure themselves. In Indiana if you’re homeless you have to check in (in-person) with the county sheriff every 7 days. What? These people are homeless! Now they have to worry about getting a ride back to the county sheriff or risk prosecution again? They might as well just live at the county. Lifetime registration means you have to follow strict rules that the rest of the world doesn’t. Like keep your driver’s license up to date with your address, not live within so many miles of parks, schools, etc. being babysat and tracked by local authorities. My cousin is looking for an appeal but lawyers are saying he would have to get post-conviction relief because he has already done his time. This is crap. Our family argues that if you are currently and continuously being punished by the registry then it’s like you are in prison and that should constitute for a full appeal as if you were incarcerated due to being consistently under governmental watch. So when congress says this isn’t punishment I wonder whom have they polled. Did they poll the people and families most affected by these rules? I think not. That’s like polling Mike Tyson to ask him if his punches hurt. You have to ask the people who got hit by him. The world is advocating for no bullying but my cousin and others ARE being bullied by these anti-constitutional laws through the registry.

We found this forum after searching because I took him to be registered for his yearly in Marion County. He asked about moving from Indiana to Florida. The clerk at the desk was so helpful in informing him that some states make any sex offense a lifetime registration. Also that a state can only upgrade your registration not downgrade it. She gave him an example of someone who actually moved from Indiana to Florida and he was a 10-year register in Indiana but became a lifetime register in Florida. Then when he moved back to Indiana he couldn’t go back to the 10-year registration because Indiana couldn’t downgrade Florida’s lifetime registration so now he was stuck having to register for life. HORRIBLE! My question is why can the punishment of registering be upgraded but not downgraded? Some of this stuff should have been clearly stated about moving to different states. We’re happy she explained it to him but that doesn’t make it right. The house always wins and thank God we’re in a country that we can fight to change the house. Everyone just needs to be in unity. Make a petition, spread the word, do something.

Just like this forum, sex offenders need one. One place to unite, one face to represent them all, one lawyer or law firm to fight each unlawful restriction against them in a class-action suit (not just these individual cases). There’s power in numbers with unity.

Jesus spoke to those who came to prisons not the people who sat at home condemning prisoners saying I won’t come visit those sinners. Thank you guys for being a strong advocate you WILL be blessed!

Thank you for this!