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A HUGE win out of Colorado, where a Federal Judge declared the Sex Offender Registry to be “cruel and unusual” punishment. In his ruling, which can be read HERE, he opined that the sex offender registry gives the public the “power to inflict punishments beyond those imposed through the court.” What is also significant from the Judge’s opinion is that

Below is another excellent decision, finding conditions of registration punishment and a violation of the Ex Post Facto clause of the Constitution: A 2015 law meant to prohibit certain sex offenders from entering school property is unconstitutional as it applies to a Howard County man who has already completed his punishment for his 2010 child solicitation conviction, the Indiana Court

NPR released a four-part series on “Sex Offenders and Public Safety”. You can use the following links to listen to parts one and two: https://cpa.ds.npr.org/wvtf/audio/2017/08/so_part_1.mp3 https://cpa.ds.npr.org/wvtf/audio/2017/08/so_part_2.mp3

A Texas FOX News affiliate just posted a story with the following headline, “Ingham County looking to charge 4 sex offenders after verification operation”. What the headline could have just as easily read was, “97% of registered sex offenders found to be compliant with laws”, because only 3 out of 114 checked in the Ingham County operation were suspected to

Shalimar, Florida’s WEAR ran a story on the newly designed Florida driver’s licenses. One surprising opinion about the new license came from a retired parole officer, who commented on the sex offender designation on licenses for those registered. Here’s what he had to say: “The new license turns heads in Okaloosa County; including Don Gatchell’s. He’s a retired parole officer

After years of posting about the growing encampment of transient sex offenders in Miami-Dade County, it has taken some recent bad media exposure for the County to do something about it. And who do they appoint to spearhead the effort to relocate them? Ron Book! The same person who caused them to be homeless in the first place! As absurd

For nearly three years, county officials and police in Miami-Dade failed to respond as a tent city of sex offenders grew along train tracks near Hialeah. The squalid camp is just the latest consequence of a 2005 county law that banned sex offenders from living within 2,500 feet of any school, daycare center, or park, effectively banishing them into homelessness

Three major South Florida news outlets covered the pending eviction of 270 individuals from a homeless sex offender encampment, tucked away in a warehouse district in Miami-Dade County, Florida. The stories featured Ron Book, chair of the County’s Homeless Trust, visiting the camp with “information and resources” to “help” these people find housing in light of the extremely harsh “residency

It is with a heavy heart I break this news. Though many of you did not know him, Greg Evers was a Senator and Gentleman Farmer. He chaired the Criminal Justice Committee in Tallahassee for several years. He understood our issue better than most in Tallahassee and although had not sponsored legislation for us directly he helped us more than

Roughly 260 sex offenders have registered as their residence the intersection of Northwest 36th Court and 71st Street, on the edge of Hialeah and Miami.  The closest house is four blocks away and the only buildings here are squat warehouses. They start to roll in around 9:30 p.m., just in time for curfew. By the end of the night, around 50 people fill two dozen tents