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Dr. Alissa Ackerman, who was the guest speaker on last month’s member call, a professor at California State University, one of the most prolific researchers on sex offender policy and practices and a pioneer in restorative justice has launched Ampersands Restorative Justice, a site dedicated to the human-centered approach to repairing and preventing harm (in this case, sexual harm). Dr.

The Supreme Court will soon consider whether to hear a First Amendment challenge to a Louisiana law that required driver’s licenses to identify sex offenders. According to a Louisiana law, people convicted of sex crimes must use driver’s licenses with the words ‘sex offender’ in large orange letters below their photos. It can make everyday encounters – with bank tellers,

Yesterday we got 3 notifications that they were scam targets. One would think that with enough complaints the FDLE would take measures to track these scammers down, but apparently they don’t. This was from a member: I wanted to let you know about a scam that has been targeting registrants. Recently I got a call from someone pretending to be

Well this isn’t good… How about the other 99% of the times someone needs to show their drivers licenses, like when cashing a check or using a credit card?

A Palm Coast man drove to the Kim C. Hammond Justice Center in Bunnell on Tuesday morning to be sentenced to 3½ years in prison on 10 counts of possession of child pornography. But instead of walking into the courthouse, XXXXXX XXXXXX, 47, remained in his truck and apparently shot himself to death outside the courthouse, according to a release

The S.C. Supreme Court has ruled the state’s lifetime requirement to register as a sex offender is unconstitutional and those who demonstrate a low risk of re offending may have their names purged with a judge’s permission. You can read the Court’s opinion here: https://www.sccourts.org/opinions/HTMLFiles/SC/28033.pdf https://law.justia.com/cases/south-carolina/supreme-court/2021/28033.html Watch oral arguments here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTPq69kGgiE    

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The Flagler County Commission has enacted new restrictions on where sexual offenders or predators may reside, increasing safety buffers around places where children are known to gather. The commission voted 5-0 in favor of the new regulations during its June 7 meeting after Sheriff Rick Staly spoke in favor of the additional limits. The county’s existing ordinance had barred sexual

Many of you who follow our website closely might have noticed that some of the recent content is missing. It seems our site crashed. While we are still looking into the cause, fortunately we had the foresight to regularly back up our site and content so that we were quickly able to restore most of what was lost. Unfortunately, however,

We are beginning to be notified by members who had pending applications for civil rights restoration that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has summarily DENIED all pending applications for restoration of voting rights for anyone with a murder or sex offense. This is HORRIBLE! The letters say: Dear Mr XXXXXXX, On March 10, 2021, the Governor exercised his clemency powers to