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Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi says she’s “concerned” about a new exemption to the state’s Sunshine Law, which would virtually eliminate Floridians’ access to millions of criminal and arrest records. Approved unanimously by lawmakers last month, SB 118 would require clerks to seal more than 2.7 million criminal records and hundreds of thousands of arrest records for individuals who were found not

A lawsuit filed last year by 104 sex offenders challenging Idaho’s laws that require registration and community notification of sex offenders has been expanded to 134 sex offenders. They say the laws violate an array of constitutional rights, from the prohibition on double jeopardy to freedom of religion. Twin Falls attorney Greg Fuller filed an amended complaint April 27 in

ST. LOUIS • Hundreds of sex offenders will soon have GPS monitoring devices removed from their ankles after Missouri officials recently required that they wear the bulky devices, according to a preliminary injunction filed in Cole County Circuit Court on Monday. “We are hoping to have a permanent injunction,” said Clayton-based attorney Matt Fry, who is suing the state on

On Friday, a group of Minnesota sex offenders who are civilly committed (confined indefinitely in prison-like treatment centers after they have already completed their criminal sentences) filed a petition to have their case heard by the Supreme Court of the United States. In 2015, a U.S. District Court Judge declared parts of the civil commitment law unconstitutional, but that decision

Thank you to Josh Gravens for this story and thank you to the NY Daily News for publishing it: Mr. Weiner, You are an idiot. You have thrown away a lovely family, a wife so devoted that she stood by you as you became the laughingstock of the country. Your last name didn’t help you much. It only gave your

A Secret Service officer assigned to the White House was sentenced to 20 years in prison Thursday for sexting with minors and sending several underage girls sexually explicit images. Lee Robert Moore, of Church Hill, Maryland, must also register as a sex offender and will be on supervised release for the remainder of his life, the Justice Department announced. Moore,

This story out of Texas, reports that a 14-year-old junior high student is facing the possibility of life as a registered sex offender after being arrested for having sex with his 12-year-old girlfriend. He’s a seventh grader, she’s a sixth grader. They are boyfriend-girlfriend. The sex was consensual. The State of Texas does have a “Romeo and Juliet” exemption, but

It’s a new law that’s causing people to question whether they are hearing it correctly or whether it’s “fake news” or not. Missouri passed a law that’s putting all sex offenders on GPS for life. Even those whose sentences don’t order it. Clearly they are not applying it retroactively, right? WRONG! It’s being applied to offenses that took place on

The new price is a lifetime ankle bracelet or get hit with a felony:  For those who thought they had “paid the price” for their wrongdoing – Missouri just tore up the deal.  Now some with sex offense records are learning they must wear and pay for (current price $30/month) GPS ‘ankle bracelets’ for *life* — under threat of felony

PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. – “Ok cool, can we make love in the shower?” “Can we use cooking oil for lube? I heard that works too.” “What happens is up to us, we own our own destiny.” Real messages, sent from middle aged men in Okeechobee and St. Lucie County to police officers posing as 15- year-old girls. The two