Advocacy News

Last month New Yorkers in the Upper West Side were all up in arms about a hotel that was used as a temporary shelter to house 18 persons labeled as "sex offenders". Neighbors of the Hotel Belleclaire, at 77th and Broadway, questioned why "so many" of these individuals...

In Florida, not only vehicles owned or driven by a person required to register as a sex offender are on the registry, but so too are the vehicles of anybody living with them or visiting their homes for 5 or more days. That means your spouse, your driver-age children,...

I have been writing of the successes NARSOL has been achieving with their letters/emails to Patch.com.  After NARSOL’s press release signed by over 200 researchers, academics, treatment providers, including ATSA, and many others (FAC included), some states have...

Three individuals formerly convicted of sex offenses are challenging their continued confinement in a "residential treatment facility" (a prison-like confinement) because they could not find housing that was compliant with the state's 1000 foot residency restrictions....

Every year in the run-up to Halloween, Patch publishes maps showing the homes of "registered sex offenders" in various cities. Ostensibly, this information is aimed at helping parents who worry that their children might be molested while trick-or-treating. But...

Reentry task forces for Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach Counties submitted a Report and Recommendation to all Florida Senators and Representatives, urging them to create a law that would preempt the patchwork of municipal sex offender residency restrictions that...

A Nebraska Judge will soon decide whether a homeowners association can restrict someone registered as a sex offender from its community. The Wildwood Estates Homeowners Association in Gage County, Nebraska, is seeking a temporary injunction to remove a registered sex...