With Unity Comes Change
This week, a suspicious invitation to participate in a “survey” was sent to every registered email on the Florida Sex Offender registry. Today, we sent the following letter to the academic who is allegedly behind this survey, inviting him to answer to some glaring concerns we all have. We will update this post if he responds. Letter To Southwestern College
Read moreThere is Fearless Group starting in Florida and you are invited to participate. This is a peer-led support program that has been offered by NARSOL affiliates in other states. With the leadership of a key volunteer in the Tampa area, FAC members can now participate, too. Meet your facilitator Daphne on the first phone meeting Thursday November 19 from 6:30-8:00pm ET. Call
Read moreThis morning we posted the below message. It didn’t take long for us to discover that the “PRIMARY INVESTIGATOR”, Christopher Duszka, Was (at least until recently) a Crime Intelligence Analyst for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement! (see: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-duszka-90738337) WE ARE WARNING MEMBERS TO NOT PARTICIPATE IN THIS SURVEY!!! Who knows how the information you provide will be used against
Read moreThe registry has us believing that those individuals on this list are the ones society needs to be careful of, when in reality more than 95% of sex offenses are committed by someone NOT on the list and in MANY cases the perpetrator is someone in a position of trust, such as a relative, family friend, teacher, coach or even
Read moreOfficer James Freeman of Greenbrier, AR was doing a sex offender compliance check on private property when the homeowner’s dog barked at him. So Freeman shot the dog. The event would be an example of how mean some of the officers doing compliance checks can be to people on the registry and their families, but it was just made worse
Read moreJason is like many others who struggle to lead a healthy adult life because of a juvenile adjudication based on unsurprising adolescent behavior. States across the country place children as young as 8 years old on sex offender registries for conduct that is otherwise developmentally normal. Required by federal law, this label imposes barriers on young people’s access to education,
Read moreA Dutch police chief has called for an end to “paedophile hunting” after a 73-year-old retired teacher was beaten up by teenagers and died of his injuries. The Arnhem attack is the latest in a series of 250 incidents involving so-called “paedophile hunters” in the Netherlands, reports say. East Netherlands regional police chief Oscar Dros appealed to Dutch citizens to
Read moreThe 11th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed, in part, the complaint of an individual civilly committed in the Florida civil commitment center. The plaintiff, who remains confined despite completing his sentence, sued Geo group (contracted by the state to provide transport services) for, among other things, not giving him a bathroom break during a 1200 mile round trip transport to
Read moreA group of registered sex offenders in Western North Carolina say the sheriff forced them to check in with local law enforcement or face arrest on Halloween night in 2019. Now they’re suing. At least 11 men and the nonprofit group North Carolinians for Rational Sex Offender Laws accused Cherokee County and Sheriff Derrick Palmer of violating their constitutional rights
Read moreA member alerted us to a possible new misuse of registrant data to falsify identity and obtain opioids or other identity theft. He wrote, “Hello. I’m on the registry in Florida, Leon county. Today a cop showed up at more door. I thought it was a registry check. I went to get my license. My wife was here as well.
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