Preferential treatment? Former Seminole County judicial candidate admits sex with teen, gets house arrest

A former candidate for Seminole County judge was sentenced to house arrest and probation as part of a plea deal to lesser charges for having sex with a teenage girl who worked on his campaign, court documents show. XXXXX XXXXX was initially arrested and charged with unlawful sexual activity with a 17-year-old in September 2019. Under a plea deal with

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ACSOL: Legal Scholars to Consider Elimination of Public Registry Next Week

Members of the American Law Institute (ALI), the most important and prestigious organization of legal scholars and prominent attorneys in the nation, will consider a proposal next week that could significantly change the nation’s sex offender laws.  The most significant of those changes would be the elimination of public registries in all 50 state.  The proposal also includes, but is

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A 7-Year-Old Was Accused of Rape. Is Arresting Him the Answer?

Little is known about the circumstances of the arrest, the specifics of the allegations or the case’s disposition. The records of cases involving children are kept private. But in New York, the arrest reignited a discussion about how the justice system deals with so-called young offenders. Judges, juvenile justice experts and lawyers who have handled such cases from both sides

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Audit says employee at Iowa sex offender unit falsified husband’s work hours to collect more than $50,000

Iowa’s sex offender treatment facility is facing questions over falsified time card records said to have netted an employee and her husband more than $52,000 in unearned income. For more than a year, the administrative assistant manipulated records to show her husband — a part-time employee of the facility — was working at times he wasn’t, according to an investigation

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Civilian sex stings aim at ‘street justice’

“When a vigilante does something like this and exposes somebody, you can’t use what they’ve gathered,” Kirshy said. “There’s no chain of custody, there’s no guarantee that what they have created — that being the video or the audio — is accurate.” There’s no procedures or protocols being followed in civilian operations and therefore no way to establish who’s on

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