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On Friday, Amendment 122135 was filed as part of Senate Bill 234, which addressed State v. James, 298 So. 3d 90 (Fla. 2d DCA 2020) (the case that said someone who has not paid their fee has no requirement to register), but removed the parts of the bill that state, "A...

[FAC COMMENT: Does this somehow justify Amendment 4?] The general counsel for the Florida elections commission was arrested for possession of child porn Wednesday, according to The Tallahassee Democrat. Courts records indicate that Eric M. Lipman was charged with 11...

For those who don't know, Charles Rodrick, Brent Oesterblad and Sarah Shea, the individuals behind a network of websites who, for years, extorted persons required to register, have been indicted in Arizona and are facing a number of criminal charges. So many of us...

A Summerfield sex offender spent a night in jail last week after showing up a day late for his quarterly registration update. He has re-registered 25 times since originally registering in April 2015. He most recently re-registered in Marion County on Dec. 4, 2020 and...

[FAC Note: this guy is no stranger to us. He's finally getting what he deserves, hopefully] Sex offenders were Charles Rodrick's business. For years, the Arizona website owner targeted people who had been arrested for sex crimes and demanded payments for removal of...

A federal judge ruled Monday that Tennessee’s sex offender registration act is unconstitutional, at least as it was applied retroactively to two offenders. The ruling in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee affects only the two men who sued,...

The city of Apple Valley has agreed to settle a class action federal lawsuit filed in 2020 that challenges the constitutionality of a 2017 city ordinance that limits where some sex offenders can live in the community.The Apple Valley City Council, without discussion,...