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Phillip Golightly, 39, of Quincy, Florida, was sentenced to 24-months in federal prison following his conviction for sexual abuse of a ward while on duty at the Federal Correctional Institution in Tallahassee. The sentence, following the defendant’s guilty plea on October 16, 2020, was announced by Jason R. Coody, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida. Court

We are going to keep putting these notices out there, because people continue to write in that they are victimized. The FDLE is doing NOTHING to warn persons forced to register that these scams are going on. Other states are at least putting out notices. Sex Offenders Targeted In New Scam In Pennsylvania: State Police  Here’s a transcript of a

City Walk Urban Mission has taken A LOT of heat for providing shelter to ALL people in need, INCLUDING people forced to register as sex offenders. Another opinion piece was put out in the Tallahassee Democrat by an individual who isn’t happy with the kind, compassionate and important work City Walk does (or, more specifically, that they don’t kick out

An FBI agent who investigated sex crimes against children has been arrested and charged with multiple sex crimes against children across several states, according to the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies said Supervisory Special Agent David Harris was tasked with investigating crimes against children, including child pornography. But in February of this year, he was accused of exposing himself to

The Florida Department of Corrections will soon close multiple prisons in North Florida, a last-ditch effort to grapple with severe staff shortages, according to a union representative who talked to Corrections Secretary Mark Inch about the move on Thursday. Prison officials plan to shutter Baker Correctional Institution and New River Correctional Institution in the coming weeks, said Jim Baiardi, the

As expected, the State has filed a Motion to Dismiss in the Out of State Challenge. You can read a copy below. Motions to Dismiss are almost standard practice in these cases, so the attorney was expecting it and is prepared to respond. Marcoux v Swearingen – State’s MTD

I recently discovered this word, schadenfreude. A German word whose meaning is defined as the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, or humiliation of another. I have a friend, currently in a Tennessee jail, who I have previously written about. He was accused of possessing child pornography. He denies having

A 68-year-old registered sex offender has no time left on his stay at a Marin County hotel and his case manager is making an unusual plea for someone to house his client so that he doesn’t have to sleep in a tent under a freeway. “The day I get released, I’m supposed to be on the street with diabetes,” said

The International Megan’s Law (IML) has negatively impacted registrants’ mobility across five dimensions, according to a newly released academic report.  The dimensions are legally, bureaucratically, societally, subjectively and relationally.  An advanced copy of that report can be viewed using the link below. According to the 200-page report, the IML is one part of a U.S. sex offence apparatus that continues

OK – that’s probably not the best choice for a title to a post on a forum for people required to register as sex offenders, but hopefully most who saw it recognized it as the title of a 1991 song from the ‘Nevermind’ album, put out by the alternative grunge band Nirvana. The Nevermind album was famous for two things,