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Brevard County Commissioners approved a motion during public hearing to allow individuals on the sex offender registry on the Commission meetings and at the Viera county government center premises. The amendments were first introduced during the March 22 meeting by County Attorney Abigail Jorandby who suggested changing the code to allow registered offenders entry into the facilities to conduct government business.

The month of April is historically recognized as Second Chance Month — a time to raise public awareness about giving those who have been convicted of crimes and completed sentences the opportunity for an honest second chance at successfully reentering society. For employers facing an increasingly tight labor market, second chance hiring also offers a unique opportunity to tap into a ready and willing

A candidate for Greenville City Council said his conviction in 2009 for indecent liberties with a child, which landed him on the state’s sex offender registry, was due to systemic problems with the judicial system. William Charles Shiver, 68, of Greenville was found guilty by a Pitt County jury on two counts of indecent liberties with a child on April

Since 2006, Tanea Berry and her husband, Josh, have been neighbors to the Cone Barn at 323 N. Central Ave. in Roxana. They have memories of both of their children walking next door and grabbing ice cream. But recently the Berrys, along with other community members, don’t have that same sense of comfort in letting their children near the ice

A man who once complained about living next door to a convicted paedophile has been jailed – for being a paedophile. XXXX XXXXX, 53, once complained to his local newspaper that he was furious his housing association didn’t tell him his neighbour was a sex offender. But he is now behind bars for subjecting a child to a series of

As the leader of Healing Transitions, a peer-based recovery-oriented service for homeless and uninsured people located in Raleigh, Budnick is left scrambling if someone with a sex offense comes to him for housing. Some of society’s most vulnerable people come to Budnick, asking for help. He has to turn them away due to the location of Healing Transition’s men’s campus

A violent sex offender from Racine County, Hung N. Tran, 52, has been released from all supervision and is being allowed to live out of state. This comes amid Racine County finding it increasingly difficult to find homes for offenders who have served their criminal sentence — both in part due to community resistance to having offenders placed in certain

In our toxic and brain-optional political climate, certain pundits, politicos and random Twitter dingbats have decided to spend the early days of National Child Abuse Prevention Month shooting the label ‘pedophile’ around like a spitball. It’s outrageous, several steps beyond offensive and utterly indefensible. Though we live in an age when many of the lines you don’t cross have been

A former Clarendon County, South Carolina deputy has been arrested for taking money from registrants. According to this news report, Sabrina Mellerson is accused of taking money from sex offender registrants. Apparently Sheriff’s Offices in South Carolina are allowed to collect a yearly fee from registrants. Mellerson, decided that she, personally, is allowed to collect the fee from people she

Protestors make alarming allegations about statewide sex offender treatment program in Littlefield By Elizabeth Fitz LITTLEFIELD, Texas – Protestors gathered in front of the Civil Commitment Facility in Littlefield on Saturday morning to shine a light on the injustices they said are happening within the barbed-wire fences of the former prison. Texas created the Civil Commitment Program in 1999; like