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News for Florida Sex Offenders Weekly Update 2017-11-23 Dear Members and Advocates, This week, as in years past, we struggle to find a positive message to share in light of the Thanksgiving Holiday. For many reading this message, it’s a struggle to find something to be thankful for. Thanksgiving is supposed to be more meaningful than turkey and football. It’s
Read moreFlorida Sex Offender Laws By now we all know (hopefully) that when visiting Florida, or staying at a temporary location for five (5) or more days, a sex offender is required to register where they are staying as a “temporary address”. But did you know that in addition to going to the local sheriff and registering, you are also required
Read moreNews About Florida Sex Offender Registry More than a dozen registered sex offenders have listed a Central Florida Walmart as their home address. Most people know they can go to the state database and search your home address to find if any sex offenders live nearby. However, it may not occur to people that they search the addresses where they
Read moreFlorida Sex Offender News For 12 years, Miami-Dade’s registered sex offenders have been barred from living within 2,500 feet of any school, playground, or daycare. They’re effectively homeless by law, and today hundreds live in squalor in makeshift “tent cities” under bridges, near trailer parks, and on roadsides. After New Times reported on a camp near Hialeah, county officials called these encampments
Read moreFlorida Sex Offenders Excellent reporting and follow up from Isabella Gomes of the Miami New Times. Her story follows: Beneath a shredded blue tarp, 58-year-old Claudia Baker takes a swig of A&W root beer. “Imagine your faucet dripping at night. That’s what life is like for us—except instead of just hearing the drip, we feel it,” she says. After serving
Read moreNews on Sex Offender Registry As we mentioned in our weekly update, every year, patch.com publishes city maps, highlighting the addresses of registered sex offenders, claiming they are “Halloween Safety Maps”. Well they are not. As NARSOL points out in a letter to Patch, this type of fear mongering is counter-productive and creates hysteria where none exists. Please see their
Read moreNews About Florida Sex Offender Registry Maybe we should call it a war between sex offender advocates? Strange lawsuit filed in a local federal court: A Texas-based service that claims to help sexual offenders get off the state registry that limits where they can live and work is suing a Boynton Beach nonprofit that wants to loosen registry rules. “I
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