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Freshman Broward State Sen. Lauren Book says she won’t abstain from voting on matters involving clients of her father, powerful lobbyist Ron Book. Similarly, she sees no conflict of interest in voting on measures to funnel millions of taxpayer dollars to benefit her non-profit charity and political launching pad, Lauren’s Kids. … Lobbyist Ron Book, the senator’s father, is the
Read moreLike all states Vermont has a sex offense registry and there’s a website to make the information available worldwide, 24/7. “Community notification” is the official purpose but extreme ‘naming and shaming’ a more honest take. The typical registry website has a great deal of personal information about registrants including name, age, photo, home address, details about the offense and victim,
Read moreTAMPA — The presence of about 140 sexual offenders and predators in a one mile radius around V.M. Ybor has long been a worry for parents in the eclectic, mixed-income neighborhood. Drawing many of the offenders are cheap rooming houses on Nebraska Avenue where tenants sleep in bunk beds in shared rooms. Some properties have upward of 30 bunks and
Read moreThe story begins; “ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – A SWAT standoff in unincorporated Pinellas County has ended with a deputy shot and a sex offender dead.” Why can’t they just write, “… left a man dead?” The victim, who happened to be a registrant, was killed by a mentally unstable man who was the son of his fiancee. Apparently the shooting
Read moreFELLOW WARRIORS, FAC MEMBERS AND SUPPORTERS, Many of you ask how you may help and be involved. This is one of the most important ways you may do both. We need all of you and your circle of supporters and their supporters and their supporters to reach out and call your legislators and all members of the following committees to
Read moreThe latest issue of Reason Magazine has much about sex! Pleasure, alas, has a price. As Katherine Mangu-Ward explains, “the legal risk of many common sexual choices is skyrocketing.” Several essays exploring that theme are now available online. Cyber vice squads and neo-Puritans run amok, see below. –Bill Dobbs, The Dobbs Wire American Sex Police With sweeping trafficking
Read moreIn the past couple of weeks, large mainstream news outlets, including the NY Times and Washington Post, have reported on the significant myth perpetuated as a result of the US Supreme Court’s statement that sex offender recidivism rates were “frightening and high.” As we now all know, that was a huge myth. The Washington Post went as far as to
Read moreOregon: A man is sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the crime of public indecency. “Getting caught masturbating on a MAX train,” the local mass transit system. How did the stakes get this high? There are some prior convictions, but no dead bodies, and there’s a “mental health disorder.” Life in prison without parole (LWOP)
Read moreLast week Florida’s 1st District Court of Appeals issued an order in Santiago-Morales v Florida that acknowledged it was bound by the precedent decision in State v. Shelley, 176 So. 3d 914, 916 (Fla. 2015), which held that double-jeopardy principles prohibit separate convictions based upon the same conduct. In other words; if you were charged with soliciting a minor over
Read moreAccording to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), there are 843,260 registered sex offenders listed in the United States. Some will spend five, 10 or 40 years in prison, but in truth, when they get out and reenter society, offenders are doomed to a life sentence without bars. I’m no bleeding heart. I put hundreds of criminals
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