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Blogs with News Stories on Sex Offender Issues:
Ex Post Facto Plus Case Dismissed
Devastating news in from the Southern District of Florida. Does v. Swearingen (the case we referred to as "Ex Post Facto Plus") has been dismissed by Judge Kathleen Williams because the plaintiffs are barred by the statute of limitations. A copy of the order follows....
Florida can’t move the finish line on removal.
A huge order came out of the 10th Circuit (Florida) in Polk County today. It's extremely significant for anybody who is nearing the finish line and will become eligible to petition for removal under Florida Statute 943.0435(11). Florida provides registrants only two...
The Dobbs Wire: Flashback to 2006 & Joe Biden!
The Dobbs Wire: Flashback to 2006 & Joe Biden! The U.S. has long been awash in punishment and has the highest per capita rate of incarceration in the world. After prison, in sex-related cases, an array of federal and state laws known as the sex offense legal...
Canada: Sex-offender provision unconstitutional in not criminally responsible cases
The Supreme Court of Canada has affirmed that Ontario's sex-offender registry regime violates the constitutional rights of people found not criminally responsible for their actions by reason of mental disorder. [NOTE: THEIR REGISTRY IS NON-PUBLIC] In Ontario, the law...
NY: Federal District Court grants injunction against the state blocking social media
A group of people forced to register as sex offenders in New York have been granted a preliminary injunction by a Federal District Court in New York against the NY State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, which sought to ban these individual's access...
FAC addresses suspicious survey and invites “investigator” to answer concerns
This week, a suspicious invitation to participate in a "survey" was sent to every registered email on the Florida Sex Offender registry. Today, we sent the following letter to the academic who is allegedly behind this survey, inviting him to answer to some glaring...
Fearless Group Support Team Starts in Florida
There is Fearless Group starting in Florida and you are invited to participate. This is a peer-led support program that has been offered by NARSOL affiliates in other states. With the leadership of a key volunteer in the Tampa area, FAC members can now participate,...
IMPORTANT UPDATE: Caution: Solicitations for “SORNA Compliance and Opinion Survey”
This morning we posted the below message. It didn't take long for us to discover that the "PRIMARY INVESTIGATOR", Christopher Duszka, Was (at least until recently) a Crime Intelligence Analyst for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement! (see:...
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