Month: December 2020

FAC Update

Dear Members and Advocates, I’m worried about my memory. I’m starting to forget things and I imagine it will get worse as I get older. I’m not talking about the momentary lapses like calling my kid by my dog’s name or the innocent oversights, like forgetting to pick up my in-laws at the airport. Those […]

Loading

11th Circuit: Civilly Committed still have rights

Nov 16, 2020 | 10 comments The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed, in part, the complaint of an individual civilly committed in the Florida civil commitment center. The plaintiff, who remains confined despite completing his sentence, sued Geo group (contracted by the state to provide transport services) for, among other things, not giving him a bathroom […]

Loading

Disney World Vacation Leads to Fight Over Florida Sex Offender Law (An Out of State challenge)

Nov 11, 2020 | 15 comments A Pennsylvania man has filed a challenge to a Florida law that has kept him on a sexual-offender registry after a 10-day family vacation to Disney World in 2015. The man, identified in court documents as John Doe, reported to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office when he came to Florida because […]

Loading

Florida can’t move the finish line on removal

. Nov 23, 2020 | 63 comments A huge order came out of the 10th Circuit (Florida) in Polk County today. It’s extremely significant for anybody who is nearing the finish line and will become eligible to petition for removal under Florida Statute 943.0435(11). Florida provides registrants only two opportunities to be removed from the State’s sex […]

Loading