UT: Former sex crimes prosecutor arrested for child porn

A retired Assistant Attorney General who was employed in the Child Protection Division has been arrested on charges of sexual exploitation of a minor. Gary Lee Bell, 66, worked with the Utah Attorney General’s Office and prosecuted crimes against children. Bell was arrested on six counts of sexual exploitation of a minor when authorities at The National Center for Missing

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Whatever came of “Operation March Sadness”?

I was curious… This past March, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd stood before a poster board at one of his now-famous press conferences, talking about the success of his six-day human trafficking sting cutely called “Operation March Sadness II”. If you saw the press release and didn’t know better, this seemed to be a huge deal! News4Jax‘s headline was “Operation

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IN: ‘We don’t want you here’: Sheriff says over 1,800 sex offenders live in Marion Co., 52% aren’t from here

There are more than 1,800 sexual or violent offenders living in Marion County, more than half of which were convicted and sentenced from out-of-area, according to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office. As part of the office’s efforts to drive down the number of sex offenders in the community, the sheriff’s office conducted a sweep Wednesday morning near Brookside Park. SOURCE

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Dissecting Torsilieri – Why the Pennsylvania Trial Court Decision Matters to Us

Since posting the opinion in Commonwealth v Torsilieri, there has been a lot of confusion and questions as to why this lower court decision from another state is good news for us here in Florida. I want to help unmuddy the waters by explaining the significance of this order for those in Pennsylvania, around the nation and specifically for us

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Floridians charged over voting believed they were eligible, documents show

Several Floridians facing criminal voter fraud charges, loudly trumpeted by Governor Ron DeSantis last week, believed they were eligible to vote, and in some cases said they were advised by government officials that they could cast ballots. Court and election documents reviewed by the Guardian raise questions about whether the 19 people charged last week knowingly committed fraud or whether

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Australia: Grandmother is now a convicted felon after outing a child sex predator

A Queensland woman who outed a convicted child sex predator to her small regional community has copped a criminal conviction for her actions. Calliope grandmother Maxine Davey was convicted of one count of unlawful stalking in Gladstone Magistrates Court last month. The grandmother took matters into her own hands after 41-year-old Edward James Thomson returned to their Queensland community after

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PA: HUGE WIN!!! – SORNA Declared Unconstitutional

YES, you read that correctly. A Pennsylvania Trial Court has declared SORNA Unconstitutional. The court wrote, “we find that SORNA is unconstitutional as a legislative scheme in both its use of a constitutionally infirm irrebuttable presumption and the punitive effects of its registration and notification provisions, as well as in its application to this Defendant, who has a strong support

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Santa Rosa Sheriff has his own theory on recidivism rates

Wonder where the “frightening and high” or “it’s not a matter of “if”, but “when”” myths come from? Statements like the one from Santa Rosa Sheriff, Bob Johnson. In this article (concerning a police sting) he was quoted as saying the following: For parents, Johnson said this should scare you to death. “You should monitor what websites they go to

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