Legal Update: Court denies FDLE’s Motion to Stay

October 16, 2019, 10:01 pm Today, FDLE’s motion to stay discovery discovery in Does v. Swearingen was denied. Discovery proceeds in this very important case as scheduled!  A copy of the order follows: Does v. Swearingen – Order

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Colorado considers keeping some juvenile sex offenders off registry

October 14, 2019, 3:55 pm Colorado lawmakers advanced a proposal this week to place fewer youths who commit sexual offenses on the state registry, and to partially seal that registry from the public. The proposed changes are informed

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Virginia Court Rules Galen Baughman a Sexually Violent Predator

October 14, 2019, 2:25 pm A few weeks ago, our weekly update concerned Galen Baughman, a reform advocate who was facing trial to determine whether he would be labeled a sexually violent predator and civilly committed. The below

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4th DCA overturns conviction for failure to register

October 14, 2019, 2:14 pm In a decision handed down by Florida’s 4th District Court of Appeal, the Fourteen (14) YEAR sentence of a person required to register for a Failure to Register charge was overturned after the

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Escambia County Reopens for Sex Offender Registration

May 19, 2020, 4:26 pm Escambia County has announced that it has resumed Criminal and Sex Offender Registration. For more information on registrations in Escambia call (850) 436-9494. This announcement is a good reminder to check in with

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CO: Colorado Supreme Court allows convicted man to terminate sex offender registration

May 19, 2020, 4:18 pm In a 4-3 decision, the Colorado Supreme Court has ruled that a criminal defendant was entitled to his request to de-register as a sex offender because he completed the terms of his probationary sentence

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Member Submission: Scams against persons required to register as sex offenders continue.

May 19, 2020, 1:59 pm We regularly like to post reminders of the scams out there that continue to target persons on the registry. If you are a regular reader of our forum, you already know this, but

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Arrest made in murder of Nebraska person required to register as sex offender

May 19, 2020, 1:27 pm Omaha police announced the arrest of James Fairbanks, who was arrested on suspicion of criminal homicide in the death of 64-year-old Mattieo Condoluci. Condoluci was found shot to death in his home this

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NJ: lawsuit seeks to eliminate registration for juvenile sex offenders.

September 19, 2019, 8:16 pm But the question of whether [juveniles] should be on the registry is at the center of an ongoing federal civil rights lawsuit against the New Jersey Attorney General that is seeking to eliminate

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South Florida: Meeting on voting. Opportunity to speak out

September 16, 2019, 1:26 pm The following is an announcement about an event talking about Amendment 4 – for those in the area it’s a good opportunity to speak out about registrants being excluded from the amendment. The

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Investigation into another death of a registrants while incarcerated

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

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11th Cir. affirms 1440 months of imprisonment for CP offenses. Finds it reasonable.

September 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

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RETRACTION: Article from earlier today on MO Supreme Court Decision

September 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

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For family of a person with intellectual disabilities a sex offense conviction can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars

September 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

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CA: Man Mistaken As Sex Offender, Beaten to Death

September 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

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IL: Suit settled in teen suicide that led to law change

August 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

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Galen Baughman Civil Commitment Trial Begins Monday

August 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

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New Bill would end statute of limitations on reporting sexual battery on a minor in Florida

August 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

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San Francisco board rebrands ‘convicted felon’ as ‘justice-involved person,’ sanitizes other crime lingo

August 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

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New Smyrna Beach trying to ban registrants under threat of lawsuit

August 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

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