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Florida 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 About Sex Offender Registry – Michigan The Michigan Supreme Court is hearing a case today concerning a man who decades ago touched a girls breasts. His probation and community service were completed in 1997 and his case was dismissed. He has no conviction. Even though his criminal case is sealed and the general public would otherwise have no knowledge
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
Read moreNews About Florida Sex Offender Laws JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Registered sex offenders in the River City may soon be able to live closer to schools, public libraries and other places children frequent if the Jacksonville City Council has anything to say about it. The city council will undergo a second reading of city ordinance 2017-667 on Tuesday. The bill’s primary
Read moreNews Regarding Florida Sex Offender Registry Laws An Amended Complaint was filed this week in the Miami-Dade Sex Offender Residency Restriction challenge. The original action, which was brought in 2014 by the Florida Action Committee and Individuals who were legislated into homelessness by the Miami-Dade Ordinance which prevented registered sex offenders from living within 2500 feet of a school, was
Read moreNews about Florida Sexual Offenders A man incarcerated at the Wakulla Correctional Institute Annex, a Florida prison, was killed on Monday. He was a sex offender being held in a protective management program at the prison. While very few details are being released concerning his death, the 36 year old man was said to have been killed by another inmate.
Read moreFlorida Sexual Offender Laws The FDLE filed a “Response In Opposition” to the Motion for Summary Judgment in the Internet Identifier Case this past Friday. In it they wrote, “The visits that Plaintiffs and other sexual offenders make to the websites of the Florida Action Committee, Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws, and the National Association for Reform Sexual Offender
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