September 14, 2019, 1:07 pm 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
Read MoreSeptember 18, 2019, 5:23 pm In a decision that came out yesterday, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals (which includes Florida, Georgia and Alabama) ruled that the district court’s sentence in a particularly heinous child pornography case was
Read MoreSeptember 16, 2019, 6:20 pm Regrettably, an article was shared with us earlier today that mistakenly reported a decision out of the Missouri Supreme Court concerning the retro activity of their registry. As it turns out, the news
Read MoreSeptember 13, 2019, 10:37 am 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
Read MoreSeptember 3, 2019, 2:59 pm A 63 year old homeless man, Jace Decker, 63, was beaten to death by Matthew Arguello and Ruben Rosales, two men who thought Decker was a registered sex offender. The assault, which took
Read MoreAugust 31, 2019, 9:44 pm The case of a suburban Chicago teenager, Corey Walgren, who killed himself in 2017, three hours after a dean and in-school police officer at Naperville High School told the honor-roll student he might
Read MoreAugust 24, 2019, 12:52 pm The trial of advocate, Galen Baughman, will begin this coming Monday to determine whether he will be civilly committed. Civil commitment is the involuntary detention of an individual beyond the expiration of their
Read MoreAugust 23, 2019, 10:49 am A new bill in Florida would end the time limit a minor would have to report sexual battery. SB 170, sponsored by Sen. Linda Stewart and a companion bill in the House, HB
Read MoreAugust 22, 2019, 1:45 pm Crime-ridden San Francisco has introduced new sanitized language for criminals, getting rid of words such as “offender” and “addict” while changing “convicted felon” to “justice-involved person.” The Board of Supervisors adopted the changes
Read MoreAugust 17, 2019, 12:18 pm [FAC NOTE: We must organize a group to create a vocal opposition to the proposed SORR. If you live in Volusia County, please contact membership so we can coordinate.] There are more sex
Read MoreAugust 16, 2019, 6:31 pm The North Carolina Supreme Court has just struck down lifetime GPS-monitoring for persons required to register as sex offenders who are not on parole or probation as unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment (Search
Read MoreAugust 16, 2019, 1:19 pm The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in US v. Blair, ruled that a special condition on the Defendant’s Internet use that was “limited to those the defendant requests to use, and which the
Read MoreAugust 5, 2019, 8:07 pm Attorneys for the Doe Plaintiffs in what we are referring to as the “Ex Post Facto Plus” challenge have filed their objection to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s Motion to Dismiss the
Read MoreJuly 31, 2019, 11:34 pm Yesterday, NARSOL and John Doe Plaintiffs got a victory against the State of North Carolina, which sought to dismiss a lawsuit brought to challenge the constitutionality of the North Carolina Registry. “The Court
Read MoreJuly 29, 2019, 2:14 pm When it comes to large, overlapping exclusion zones and limited housing availability for persons required to register as sex offenders, an inch is as good (or bad) as a mile. In most Jurisdictions,
Read MoreJuly 20, 2019, 12:22 pm The 19 child sex offenders who were told they must leave Wayside Cross Ministries by July 26 have filed a civil federal lawsuit against the city of Aurora, arguing the men should not
Read MoreJuly 20, 2019, 12:20 pm …it is important to understand that many registries are bloated with names that probably shouldn’t be there. Public urination, streaking or sex between consenting teenagers can land a person on the registry. A
Read MoreJuly 17, 2019, 11:48 am Spectrum posted an article today asking the question; “Many first-time sex offenders on the spectrum may not understand the laws they break. How should their crimes be treated?” Many autistic individuals become embroiled
Read MoreJuly 15, 2019, 4:49 pm The Orlando Sentinel reports that Steven Stryker, a Navy veteran, died after his court-appointed guardian, Rebecca Fierle, determined that he should not receive life-saving actions, despite Stryker’s desire that they be administered. According
Read MoreJuly 12, 2019, 10:16 pm A federal judge has further delayed the implementation of a new law in Tennessee that would have prohibited convicted sex offenders from staying overnight in the same homes as their children. On Wednesday,
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