Court upholds ruling to require teen who traded naked selfies with girls his age to register as a sex offender

June 29, 2019, 3:11 pm Colorado’s Supreme Court upheld a ruling last week that required a juvenile boy to register as a sex offender after sexting and trading erotic pictures with two girls roughly his age, a split

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Lawsuit challenges Tennessee sex offender legislation

June 29, 2019, 3:03 pm Three convicted sex offenders have filed a lawsuit challenging Tennessee legislation that would make it a felony for them to live with their children. The Tennessean reports Judge William Campbell Jr. granted a

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SCOTUS: United States v. Haymond: a win for the registrant

June 26, 2019, 5:34 pm Andre Haymond was convicted of possessing child pornography. After serving a prison sentence of 38 months, and while on supervised release, Mr. Haymond was again found with what appeared to be child pornography.

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CA: Organization protecting sex offenders’ rights continues statewide lawsuit campaign, sues Lompoc

July 11, 2019, 12:10 pm An organization dedicated to protecting the rights of registered sex offenders is ion a campaign to sue cities throughout California with ordinances in place that it believes are unconstitutional. The city of Lompoc

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How the “Stranger Danger” Panic of the 1980s Helped Give Rise to Mass Incarceration

May 18, 2020, 8:35 pm Below are two excerpts from article on the “memorial laws” and how they shaped society’s psyche and created a “stranger danger panic” nearly 40 years ago, that still remains today. The ACLU and

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RTAG: Conference Call RE: International Travel

March 1, 2020, 11:27 pm March 5, 2020, Registrant Travel Action Group will be hosting a conference call at 9:00PM EST (following the FAC Monthly Member Call) ALL are invited to hear Update to RTAG’s and Matt Ameika’s

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FAC Joins Other Affiliate Organization in Amicus Brief

February 26, 2020, 9:57 pm The Florida Action Committee, along with the Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offender Laws (California), Illinois Voices for Reform,  Families Advocating Intelligent Registries (Maryland), Women Against the Registry  Oklahoma Voices and Pennsylvania Association for

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Congratulations Derek!!! Appellate Court Voids Lauren Book’s Injunction

August 14, 2019, 4:36 pm The order was issued by the 4th District Court of Appeals today so it’s being posted prior to our adding commentary in an effort to share this as quickly as possible. The court

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Fear Mongering Tactic

May 18, 2020, 8:11 pm Kudos to our media committee for getting this point in the Daytona Beach News Journal ___ I just recently read the opinion article that was posted on May 8 concerning the subject of

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MUST WATCH: John Stossel’s Forbidden Parenting

February 26, 2020, 2:42 pm The government sometimes arrests parents for giving kids responsibility. In South Carolina, mom Deborah Harrell was jailed for letting her 9-year-old daughter play in a park for the day. Local media outlets breathlessly

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WY: Senators say principals should have power to approve registered sex offenders access to schools

March 22, 2020, 4:04 am House Bill 68 aims to require registered sex offenders to obtain permission from Wyoming school principals or vice principals before they are able to access school grounds for their own children’s events at

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NJ: Supreme Court rules removal from registry is one strike and you are out!

March 18, 2020, 2:36 pm The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled this week that the provision of their registration statute that  allows those on the registry to apply for removal if they haven’t committed a crime within 15

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WY: Senators say principals should have power to approve registered sex offenders access to schools

March 6, 2020, 2:08 am House Bill 68 aims to require registered sex offenders to obtain permission from Wyoming school principals or vice principals before they are able to access school grounds for their own children’s events at

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MO: Federal Suit Challenges Sex Offender Registry

July 25, 2019, 1:10 pm Twenty-five people listed on the state’s lifelong sex offender registry are suing to have their names removed, arguing that it is unconstitutionally cruel. The Columbia Daily Tribune reports that the plaintiffs include a

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Some slides from the SMART conference.

July 17, 2019, 2:37 pm Below are two interesting slides from the SMART Conference, which started today. This slide acknowledges that re-offense rates are low contrary to the “Frightening and High” myth previously used. This slide acknowledges that

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IN: Great decision out of Indiana

July 12, 2019, 9:06 pm A great decision out of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana was issued earlier this week. Previously, people residing in Indiana who committed (and completed all sanctions relating

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Miami-Dade SORR case might proceed by teleconference.

May 18, 2020, 4:18 pm In a letter to the attorneys in Does v. Miami Dade County, the Sex Offender Residency Restriction case that is currently before the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, the court notified that due

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Sex Offender Registries Don’t Keep Kids Safe, But Politicians Keep Expanding Them Anyway

July 16, 2019, 11:30 am Lawmakers are using “stranger danger” myths to keep almost a million Americans out of work and on the verge of homelessness. Following are some excerpts from a GREAT article in the Huffington Post

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Reason: The Truth Could Set Them Free

March 1, 2020, 9:57 pm In late 2006, a public defender went before a Napa County judge to argue for his client’s freedom. Rex McCurdy, a 49-year-old man, had been detained for seven years at Atascadero State Hospital

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Supreme Court rules for sex offender in child pornography case testing power of judges, juries

June 26, 2019, 5:19 pm The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that even sex offenders deserve to have the reasons for their sentences determined by a jury, not a judge. The justices ruled 5-4 that a federal law requiring sex offenders to

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