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Since posting the opinion in Commonwealth v Torsilieri, there has been a lot of confusion and questions as to why this lower court decision from another state is good news for us here in Florida. I want to help unmuddy the waters by explaining the significance of this order for those in Pennsylvania, around the nation and specifically for us

Several Floridians facing criminal voter fraud charges, loudly trumpeted by Governor Ron DeSantis last week, believed they were eligible to vote, and in some cases said they were advised by government officials that they could cast ballots. Court and election documents reviewed by the Guardian raise questions about whether the 19 people charged last week knowingly committed fraud or whether

A Queensland woman who outed a convicted child sex predator to her small regional community has copped a criminal conviction for her actions. Calliope grandmother Maxine Davey was convicted of one count of unlawful stalking in Gladstone Magistrates Court last month. The grandmother took matters into her own hands after 41-year-old Edward James Thomson returned to their Queensland community after

YES, you read that correctly. A Pennsylvania Trial Court has declared SORNA Unconstitutional. The court wrote, “we find that SORNA is unconstitutional as a legislative scheme in both its use of a constitutionally infirm irrebuttable presumption and the punitive effects of its registration and notification provisions, as well as in its application to this Defendant, who has a strong support

Wonder where the “frightening and high” or “it’s not a matter of “if”, but “when”” myths come from? Statements like the one from Santa Rosa Sheriff, Bob Johnson. In this article (concerning a police sting) he was quoted as saying the following: For parents, Johnson said this should scare you to death. “You should monitor what websites they go to

It ended in tragedy. A 16 year old girl was found dead. But it didn’t happen the way most people think, Kiely Rodni went missing shortly after midnight on August 6th. She was last seen at a campground party attended by many others her age. It didn’t take long before authorities in Northern California announced they’re conducting sex offender compliance

Then there’s J. The North Jersey man, who asked that his name be withheld because of the stigma sex offenders endure, was 14 when he says a hangout with a younger friend in a treehouse turned sexual. The other boy’s parents found out and reported him to police. “I denied it because I was embarrassed by it,” J said. “And

Mark noticed something amiss with his toddler. His son’s penis looked swollen and was hurting him. Mark, a stay-at-home dad in San Francisco, grabbed his Android smartphone and took photos to document the problem so he could track its progression. It was a Friday night in February 2021. His wife called an advice nurse at their health care provider to

Just about all of the offenders I’ve ever met don’t want to offend again, and most sexual offenders do not reoffend. They want to be useful members of society. However, released sexual offenders face many barriers to this: stigma, ostracism, lack of work, housing, friends, family, human connection. For the minority of sex offenders who do reoffend, it is exactly

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced Thursday that his new elections police force has arrested 20 former felons on charges of illegally voting in the 2020 election. Flanked by members of the new Office of Election Crimes and Security, DeSantis said the ex-felons — all convicted of murder or sex offenses — would now be charged with voter fraud, a third-degree