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The opinion (Lindsey v Swearingen – Opinion), issued yesterday in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, held that Florida does not need to give Full Faith and Credit to an Oklahoma Order removing someone from the Oklahoma Registry, because the Oklahoma Order did not apply to the Florida Registry. The bad: This is another in a series of bad decisions

Guys, I can’t make this stuff up. Another Florida School Resource Officer (a police officer assigned to work in a school) is in trouble this week for a child sex crime. Just days after a school resource officer in Jacksonville was arrested, another officer in Altamonte Springs’ home was searched as part of a child pornography investigation. I literally had

When Beyer was 17, he made a fake account on Snapchat and started contacting girls about his same age. He was in high school at the time. The FBI became aware of his activity in June of 2021, probably because one of the girl’s parents found out what he was doing and brought her phone to the authorities. But the

A member just alerted us to a court decision out of New York that addresses the duration for registration of someone who moves to NY from another state. This member has been waiting ten years to get off the registry in another state so that he can move to NY and live with his fiancee free of registration obligations and

Every day we scan news headlines, appellate court decisions and legislative filings to learn about current events impacting people on the registry. During our daily perusal, we came across this article, which questioned whether persons forced to register as sex offenders should be barred from entering places which serve alcohol. The supposition for the story was that Brock Turner (a

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) gets about $40 million a year in federal funding. It spends at least a few of those bucks crafting unnecessary emails like the one I got last week with the subject line: “Are your kids safely back-to-schooling?” Not only is “back-to-schooling” not a verb, but also the question seems geared less

Like many of us, I was watching the Miami Dolphins game this past weekend and I happened to notice one of the all-time great boxers, Mike Tyson, sitting in the owner’s box next to New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft. For many, the image was just a shot of two celebrities enjoying a game. Albeit an unlikely duo to attend

I’ll let you read the full article at the source before commenting: https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/working-for-you/neighbors-furious-over-sex-offender-home/509-2796f9c3-dda7-4345-ad38-23147f92823d Note there were no issues – the neighbors only found out about the home after they checked the Megan’s Law Website. Despite there being no issues (aside from the community’s disapproval), they are looking to “change the laws” to prevent this program designed to reduce recidivism. They

One of the foundations of a civilized society is the concept that people who do wrong need to be held accountable for their crimes. What naturally follows from that precept is that once a person has successfully paid society back by serving their prison sentence, they have earned the right to be free and return home. What would you think

Here’s a little fun… Polk county just announced ANOTHER “Human Trafficking Sting”. This month’s sting was called “Fall Haul 2” and it claimed 160 Arrests. By now we already know about Sheriff Grady Judd’s “human trafficking operations”, which should never be considered “human trafficking” operations because they don’t find victims of human trafficking – they are more like very aggressive