Advocacy News

The Palm Beach Post reported yesterday that a 32 year old man who last year plead guilty to the lewd or lascivious battery of a 12-year-old died while in a medium-security lockup. Authorities are investigating the cause of his death. The number of reported deaths...

Carol Nesteikis, 66, has never committed a crime. But for two years, from six in the evening to six in the morning the next day, she lived under de facto house arrest with her 32-year-old son, Adam. It wasn’t because she wanted to. The home itself was a kind of...

If you get a call from someone claiming to be from the Sheriff's office telling you that there's a warrant out for you and you can avoid arrest buy showing up somewhere or paying a sum of money, you should hang up, call the police and INSIST on filing a police report....

A few months ago we wrote about 19 residents of Wayside Cross ministries (see here and here) who were nearly evicted from their home because the city sought to evict them claiming the men who were required to register as sex offenders were living too close to a...

Wisconsin Republican Rep. James Sensenbrenner, one of the most influential members of Congress on criminal justice issues, will not seek re-election next year after four decades on Capitol Hill. In recent years, Sensenbrenner was best known in criminal justice circles...

A member brought to our attention a YouTube channel belonging to a person required to register. We've not had the opportunity to review all the videos, so we are sharing the page with a clear disclaimer that the opinions expressed in the videos might not necessarily...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Wednesday that Suffolk County’s decision to contract with a nonprofit to verify the home addresses of registered sex offenders did not violate Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and...

Barred from other shelters, registrants were left with few options as Hurricane Dorian approached. For some people convicted of sex crimes in Florida, the only shelter open to them during Hurricane Dorian is the county jail. In some counties, people on the registry...