Following was sent in by a member. I recently spoke to an attorney in Georgia. I was inquiring about the possibility to relocate and my residency and registration requirements as well as the time frame and procedure to be removed from Georgia registry. He informed me...

The following is the text of a letter from a mother, whose son (a person required to register as a sex offender) was prevented from pursuing his education, because of his status. It has been redacted to remove personal information, but the name of the school remains...

Last night's Florida Action Committee monthly member call was all about the family. Our guest, Shelley Kavanagh, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker currently working at the Centre for Offender Rehabilitation Education (CORE), is working on programs that aim to provide...

Over the State's objection, the Court has granted the Plaintiff Does' Motion to Proceed Anonymously in the "Ex Post Facto" case. In an order issued today, the Federal Magistrate Judge found the factors weigh in favor of the plaintiff's proceeding as John Does and not...

Report Summary Published today, this report examines the application of mandatory minimum penalties specific to federal sex offenses; it is the sixth and final in the Commission's recent series of publications on mandatory minimum penalties. Using fiscal year 2016...

SOURCE A new audit report released at the end of December indicates that privately run prisons are more costly for the state of Georgia than those run by the state. Currently, the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDOC) has four prisons run by two private companies,...

Florida Bar Association President Michelle Suskauer recently penned a column published in FLORIDA TODAY about needs for reforming the criminal justice system. In her piece, she focused on a number of important issues about mental health, curbing recidivism, re-entry,...