June 24, 2020, 1:28 pm John Oliver took on the crisis of Coronavirus spreading in Prisons across the United States. The post John Oliver: Coronavirus in Prisons appeared first on Florida Action Committee. Go to Source Author: Florida
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By: Paul M. Renfro The United States’ hyper-punitive approach to sexual offenders has fueled mass incarceration while doing little to actually help survivors. The “sex offense legal regime,” which has developed alongside mass incarceration over the last forty
Read MoreJune 23, 2020, 2:00 pm You won’t believe the absurdity of this one… The Illinois Supreme Court upheld the conviction of a man who entered a public park to retrieve his son. Patrick Legoo had a 2006 conviction
Read MoreJune 19, 2020, 3:55 pm Dear Members and Advocates, In 1964, the United States passed a long overdue Civil Rights Act that outlawed discrimination against other human beings based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Among
Read MoreJune 18, 2020, 9:44 pm A peculiar dispute between two South Florida neighbors came before the Fourth District Court of Appeal on Wednesday when it found that a registered sex offender’s three-year “campaign of harassment” against the couple next
Read MoreJune 17, 2020, 6:23 pm A member from Jacksonville contacted us today to let us know that he was targeted in a sex offender scam. This time the person was pretending to be calling from the US Marshals
Read MoreJune 17, 2020, 1:59 pm The “doxxing” of police officers mentioned in this article is of interest to me and perhaps it will be to others as well. There are parallels between doxxing and the registry. We know
Read MoreJune 16, 2020, 2:32 pm The Tampa Bay Times will stop publishing its online mugshot gallery, which features people who have been arrested in the newspaper’s coverage area. The Times made the announcement on Monday. “The galleries lack context and further
Read MoreJune 16, 2020, 12:29 pm This past week another individual, this time in Walton County, had a conviction overturned by the First District Court of Appeals on double jeopardy grounds. This is a scenario we see happen repeatedly
Read MoreJune 15, 2020, 4:57 pm You are invited to join a webinar hosted by @EndtheRegistry and Amber Vlangas (amberspeaksup.com) on which there will be a virtual panel discussion with Judith Levine and Erica Meiners about their new book,
Read MoreJune 12, 2020, 12:07 am The killer of Mattieo Condoluci gives a jailhouse interview – Watch it below. Then write to Brenda Beadle, Chief Deputy County Attorney and insist on the maximum punishment for this killer. She can
Read MoreJune 12, 2020, 12:01 am The killing of George Floyd at the hands of law enforcement has sparked outrage and mass protests across the nation. Calls for police reform have created yet another divide among the American public.
Read MoreJune 11, 2020, 11:57 am When NARSOL’s annual conference was cancelled because of the COVID-19 virus, they decided to replace it with a two day webcast. All of the speakers of the conference have agreed to speak on
Read MoreJune 9, 2020, 11:44 pm Dear Members and Advocates, This morning, oral arguments in Doe v. Miami-Dade (the challenge to Miami-Dade’s sex offender residency restriction that has left hundreds of individuals without anyplace to live) took place before
Read MoreJune 9, 2020, 8:24 pm Another registrant was arrested. This time for not updating his drivers license. On May 26, he reported to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office and updated his registration after being released from the Department
Read MoreJune 9, 2020, 6:07 pm The case could upend part of Florida’s sex offender laws, officials say. A Tampa man who spent 12 years in prison for molesting two young girls at a community pool does not have
Read MoreJune 9, 2020, 11:15 am This morning the 11th Circuit will hold oral arguments in our case challenging Miami-Dade County’s sex offender residence restriction. Daniel Tilley, from the ACLU will be doing the argument on behalf of the individuals
Read MoreJune 8, 2020, 8:16 pm It’s a bit off-topic but in a decision released by the Supreme Court of the United States today (Lomax v. Ortiz-Marquez) the court limited a pro se prisoner’s ability to bring lawsuits if
Read MoreJune 8, 2020, 8:04 pm the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has now published names and photographs of some convicted sex offenders on the Nigeria Sex Offender Register. The DG of NAPTIP, Dame
Read MoreJune 8, 2020, 3:13 pm Florida really loves to keep people on it’s sex offender registry and locked up. There are nearly 80 thousand people on Florida’s sex offender registry but fewer than 30 thousand are actually in
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