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Want to try and blow up a political campaign? Try and toss a grenade. No, not a literal grenade – the small hand-thrown bomb – but a political grenade… an association with a “sex offender”. “Sex offenders” have become the latest ammunition political opponents like to toss at each other in order to damage an opponents campaign. In Florida’s gubernatorial

The late Joseph Kent Brown wrote a law review article for Florida State University, in which he wrote, “of considerable importance in our society is the right of an individual to protect his or her reputation from false, irresponsible or malicious publications.” it was an article in which he weighed the First Amendment against a private individual’s reputational interest and

To kick off National Voting Rights Month, The Sentencing Project and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) invite you to a discussion exploring how felony disenfranchisement policies impact individuals with a criminal conviction, the complexities of getting voting rights restored, and the cycle of criminalization some face as a result. Join us to learn from advocates who have

The governor’s own administration greenlighted the defendants’ voter registration applications. Now it has arrested them for voting. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis made a spectacle out of the round of arrests made by his election police force earlier this month, jailing 20 people on charges of voter fraud and promising more prosecutions to come. At least one target was dragged to jail in his underwear

From a Member: I just wanted to inform you of a scam that I nearly fell for. I received a call from a “deputy” at my Sheriff’s Office telling me that I was supposed to be at the office yesterday to do a DNA swab. He said that I should have got a letter from the Court about this. I

A story just popped up on my alerts about an 85 year old man who allegedly offered a parent shopping at a Winn-Dixie $100,000 to purchase their daughter. True story, you can read more here. My initial thought was this was an old guy making a joke, but no. The guy was on probation for the same thing. Three years

After being called out for allowing a registrant to serve as a wrestling trainer, Team Vision Dojo didn’t bow to pressure, they did the stand up thing and stood behind one of their team members. In fact, they issued the following statement: Hello. Chasyn Rance was deemed guilty in the court of law in 2011 for actions that took place

A retired Assistant Attorney General who was employed in the Child Protection Division has been arrested on charges of sexual exploitation of a minor. Gary Lee Bell, 66, worked with the Utah Attorney General’s Office and prosecuted crimes against children. Bell was arrested on six counts of sexual exploitation of a minor when authorities at The National Center for Missing

I was curious… This past March, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd stood before a poster board at one of his now-famous press conferences, talking about the success of his six-day human trafficking sting cutely called “Operation March Sadness II”. If you saw the press release and didn’t know better, this seemed to be a huge deal! News4Jax‘s headline was “Operation

There are more than 1,800 sexual or violent offenders living in Marion County, more than half of which were convicted and sentenced from out-of-area, according to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office. As part of the office’s efforts to drive down the number of sex offenders in the community, the sheriff’s office conducted a sweep Wednesday morning near Brookside Park. SOURCE