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News About Florida Registered Sex Offenders The City of Ft. Lauderdale’s ordinance has caused more than half of the registered sex offenders in the city to be homeless. The City ordinance, which banishes sex offenders from; “within one thousand four hundred (1,400) feet of any of the following:(1) Any school where the majority of the population attending are students less
Read moreIt was not long ago that we reacted to the mass shootings in Las Vegas or at Pulse nightclub. Senseless tragedies. Situations where nothing appropriate can be said, except this should never be allowed to happen. When it happens at a school and children are killed, its even more tragic. Yesterday, it happened in our State, in our second-most
Read moreGov. Rick Scott claims that he, not a federal judge, should determine how Florida restores the civil rights of ex-felons. Seriously? That would be like having Bill Belichick design the Dolphins’ game plans against the Patriots. Watch the video: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/opinion/95047063-132.html Scott made this absurd argument Monday in response to the Feb. 1 ruling by U.S. District Judge Mark Walker that
Read moreRegistered Sex Offenders Targeted by Scam Artists from an Idaho State Police news release The Idaho Central Sex Offender Registry, administered by the Idaho State Police, has been made aware of several attempted scams targeting registered sex offenders in at least one Idaho county and six Florida counties. One scam involves a caller posing as a law enforcement officer who
Read moreAbolishing Sex Offender Registry Wins in New York Debate Dear Members and Advocates, If you want to see an interesting presentation on both sides of the sex offender registry argument, we suggest you watch the video of the debate that took place last night in New York. The debate was hosted by Reason.com and the Soho Forum and argued by
Read moreSex Offender Registry News An Indiana man convicted of child solicitation in 2010 is taking his case to the Indiana Supreme Court. He is challenging a law passed in 2015 that makes it a felony for him to enter school property. For the first 5 years he was granted permission to enter school property to attend his son’s school activities,
Read moreSex Offender Registry News State legislators are talking about updating Missouri’s sex offender registry to be more in line with the federal system. Under State Rep. Kurt Bahr’s proposal, three tiers of offenses would be created, corresponding with how serious the crime was, the 3rd, being the most heinous. Bahr, R-St. Charles tells Missourinet affiliate KSSZ in Columbia that the
Read moreDebate Results Favor Abolishing Sex Offender Registries Last night, The Soho Forum and Reason.com held a debate on whether, “All the laws requiring those convicted of sex offenses to put their names in a registry should be abolished.” Listeners were asked to vote BEFORE hearing the debate and then, again, AFTER hearing the debate.The results and a link to the
Read moreNews On Sex Offender Residency Restrictions NY Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a plan to restrict sex offenders whose victims were under the age of 13 from living or traveling near schools as well as banning them from living in temporary or emergency shelters where families also live. The State Courts have already overturned municipalities’ sex offender residency restrictions, finding that
Read moreNews on Florida Voter Case In a significant order issued earlier this month by Judge Walker of the Northern District of Florida, the State’s scheme for arbitrarily restoring voting rights to certain former felons was declared unconstitutional. The Judge gave the parties until yesterday, February 12, 2018, to brief on possible remedies. Below are copies of the Plaintiff’s briefs and
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