With Unity Comes Change
I am delighted that our country officially recognizes the many accomplishments of Martin Luther King by celebrating this special day. We honor not only Dr. King but also the many other heroic leaders of the civil rights movement. In the face of terrible prejudice and discrimination, they bravely pointed out the injustice, even when to do so placed their lives
Read moreThe 1990s saw a significant rise in horrific sex offenses directed towards children, prompting the federal and state governments to formulate laws to help deter offenders and ensure public safety. One of these laws was the 1994 Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration Act, requiring convicted offenders to register with their local law enforcement after their
Read moreYesterday, Senator Ed Hooper filed SB 1932, which is a 100+ page bill making significant changes to the registry. We have not gone through the bill yet, but one glaring and very concerning change is that the State makes it more difficult to petition for removal and now requires that FDLE be noticed on every petition and FDLE plus the
Read moreEven a blind person could see this one coming… One month after a Plantation, Florida man was arrested for trying to extort Senator Lauren Book by threatening to post nude pictures and videos of her that were illegally obtained if she did not pay him, the Senator introduced a bill to make the offense subject to harsher criminal and even
Read moreHerbert Slatery III, the Attorney General of Tennessee, has signed a letter condemning recent revisions to the American Law Institute’s Model Penal Code on sexual crimes. This is contrary to what evidence shows would make Tennessee safer. Earlier in 2021, ALI, an influential body comprised of attorneys, judges and scholars in various fields of research (currently including seven members of U.S. Courts of Appeal and
Read moreA former Coral Springs Police officer has been sentenced to 14-and-a-half months in state prison after pleading guilty to two counts of using a computer to sexually exploit a child, court records show. Steven Daniello, 64, who was arrested in January 2021, will also serve nearly four years of probation after completing his prison term, according to documents filed in
Read moreHundreds of convicted sex offenders are no longer being monitored by sworn police officers in Austin, Texas due to the city’s move to defund the police and cut police academy classes. As of 2019, there were about 1,600 registered sex offenders in Austin according to the state’s sex offender database. There is no law preventing any of them from living
Read moreDeputies says sex offenders are the latest target in a recent phone scam going on in the area. In recent days, Vermilion’s Sheriffs office says scammers have been posing as deputies. They are doing so in order to get cash from registered sex offenders. Detectives say the perpetrates search the online database for offenders, then call and threaten them with
Read moreThree Brevard County registered sex offenders are plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit against the county, alleging violation of their First Amendment rights when they could not attend public County Commission meetings because doing so “would place them within 1,000 feet of a school and they feared being arrested and prosecuted for a violation of the (law)”. The suit, filed Wednesday in U.S.
Read moreThe Florida Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability (OPPAGA) studied the effectiveness of Florida’s sex offender registration process and public notification provisions and prepared their triennial report for 2021. Below is a link to the complete report, which we encourage you to read. We will update this post shortly with bullets from their findings. OPPAGA Report 21
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