Florida defendant to go back to the trial court in dismissed sex sting case.

Last week, Florida’s 2nd District Court of Appeals, remanded a lower court’s dismissal of a sting case back to the trial court. While the outcome (a dismissed ICAC sting case was reopened) wasn’t great, we’re getting a bit more attention to these stings and the rules of the game. Courts are beginning to notice what’s been going on and hopefully

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The Sex Offender Registry Failed Them: 4 Men Accused of Abusing 19 Minors

Pennsylvania’s Attorney General charged 4 religious leaders with the sexual abuse of 19 children. “Most of these defendants used their faith and church to gain access to their victims to build their trust, and then molested them,” PA AG Josh Shapiro said. “Some defendants only looked as far as their own families to commit their abuse.” Florida Action Committee notes

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The Sex Offender Registry Failed Them: Junior ROTC Cadets Sexually Assaulted

More than 33 Junior ROTC instructors have been criminally charged with sexual crimes against students during the past five years. The JROTC program is a partnership between the Defense Department, the military branches and high schools around the country meant to instill leadership skills and citizenship values in teenagers. Instead, the Defense Department and military branches have been instilling sexual

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The Sex Offender Registry Failed Them: Coach Recorded Students in Locker Room

A coach at a Rancho Cucamonga, California high school plead guilty to secretly recording more than 48 minor victims in the girl’s locker room of the school he worked in. Parents should be asking California lawmakers how the California Sex Offender Registry failed these students so miserably. The sex offender registry failed them because the coach was not a registered

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Weekend Homework: Help Educate the Public

If anyone has a few extra moments this weekend, we would greatly appreciate you printing off ten copies of the flyer promoting our Change.org petition and posting them at random places around your community. You can access the flyer here: https://floridaactioncommittee.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Petition-Flyer-1.pdf Find places in your neighborhood where people frequent and see if there’s a community bulletin board or place where

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Canada: P.E.I. has 199 people on the National Sex Offender Registry, but that number may drop

Since 2011, any Canadian who has been convicted of two or more sexual offences is automatically listed on the registry for life.  The Supreme Court has determined that is unconstitutional, saying the list should be based on an offender’s risk to reoffend. According to RCMP, there are 199 people on P.E.I. listed on the registry. They have to report to

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80% of unsheltered homeless in Ft. Lauderdale are on the sex offender registry

This is “Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Month” in the City of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. At the City’s Commission meeting held on November 1, 2022, Vice Mayor Ben Sorensen recognized the hard work of homeless outreach and services providers. Notably uninvited and unrecognized were the Florida Action Committee (https://www.floridaactioncommittee.org) and the Sex Offender Housing Subcommittee of the Broward County Reentry Coalition

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At least one headline that’s not misleading (mostly)

Kudos to the Branson Tri-Lakes News for putting up a Halloween sex offender story that’s not misleading. The title is “No Branson sex offender Halloween violations involved children” Unlike most news outlets that would have tried some click bait with a misleading title such as “25% of sex offenders in Branson arrested for Halloween crimes”, they added some semblance of

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