It's that time of year again. The time when new bills start being introduced this legislative session. One of the first to come up on our radar is SB 512, which is a resurfacing of a failed bill from last year, the crux of it's impact on our population would be that...

Someone recently asked me what sports team I favored, and I told them I am a big fan of the Elks. The person asked what kind of sport they played, and I told them they were a Florida toboggan team. Most people have heard little about this wonderful sport, or the Elks,...

Two recent reports from the U.S. Sentencing Commission (USSC) shed light on the legal treatment of sex offenders and further undermine the prevailing assumption that all members of that broad class pose similar threats to public safety. That assumption, which...

In social media, critics of being required to carry a vaccine card claim that registrants are not required to carry cards identifying themselves as “sex offenders” because it is an invasion of their privacy.  Wrong. Alissa Ackerman points out that registrants do not...

A 30-year veteran law enforcement officer of Orange County is accused of targeting a man, with a past sex offense, for the previous two years.  The registrant has a history of arrests for impersonating a police officer. The LE was informed in late 2020 that the...