Polk County Pick’Em II

We’re so annoyed!!! Just days ago, we posted a fun article titled “Polk County Pick’Em” that poked a little fun at Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd’s sting operations. The article, which can be read here (https://floridaactioncommittee.org/polk-county-pickem/) presented a satirical contest, inviting readers to predict whether Judd would conduct another sting next month, what that sting would be called, and whether

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Edited: Another Out of State Challenge Fails in 11th Circuit

The opinion (Lindsey v Swearingen – Opinion), issued yesterday in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, held that Florida does not need to give Full Faith and Credit to an Oklahoma Order removing someone from the Oklahoma Registry, because the Oklahoma Order did not apply to the Florida Registry. The bad: This is another in a series of bad decisions

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ANOTHER Florida School Resource Officer investigated for sexual offense

Guys, I can’t make this stuff up. Another Florida School Resource Officer (a police officer assigned to work in a school) is in trouble this week for a child sex crime. Just days after a school resource officer in Jacksonville was arrested, another officer in Altamonte Springs’ home was searched as part of a child pornography investigation. I literally had

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Talk of banning persons forced to register as sex offenders from bars

Every day we scan news headlines, appellate court decisions and legislative filings to learn about current events impacting people on the registry. During our daily perusal, we came across this article, which questioned whether persons forced to register as sex offenders should be barred from entering places which serve alcohol. The supposition for the story was that Brock Turner (a

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You’re more likely to be struck by a meteor than to have your kid abducted by a stranger

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) gets about $40 million a year in federal funding. It spends at least a few of those bucks crafting unnecessary emails like the one I got last week with the subject line: “Are your kids safely back-to-schooling?” Not only is “back-to-schooling” not a verb, but also the question seems geared less

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