Should psychotherapists be required to report patients who look at child porn?

For years, California law required psychotherapists to report any patient who admitted developing, duplicating, printing or exchanging material depicting an obscene act involving a child. The therapists accepted that requirement. They regarded it as an obligation to report producers and distributors of child pornography. But when the Legislature amended the law in 2014 to reflect new technology, many therapists balked,

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Florida Compassionate Release Bill Excludes the Usual

State Rep. Bobby DuBose filed House Bill 837 which would grant early release to a prisoner who is suffering from “a significant terminal or non terminal condition, disease, or syndrome that has rendered the inmate so physically or cognitively impaired, debilitated, or incapacitated as to create a reasonable probability that the inmate does not constitute a danger to himself or

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Guards Committing Sexual Abuse in Florida Federal Prisons

Fourteen current and former inmates of a federal women’s prison in Florida have filed a federal lawsuit saying guards subjected them to unending sexual abuse and threats. When the inmates tried to report the misconduct, the suit alleges, they were shuttled off to a county jail or put in solitary confinement. The lawsuit, first reported by the Miami Herald, accuses

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Unnecessary shaming: Identifying shooting victim as a registrant

A tragic murder-suicide took place in Cape Coral, Florida this week. A mother shot her dog, her son and then herself. Neither her nor her son survived. The news media couldn’t help but identify the victim as a sex offender, even though that was completely irrelevant to the tragedy. https://www.news-press.com/story/news/2019/12/04/cape-police-identify-bodies-found-tuesday-mother-son/2609145001/ https://www.nbc-2.com/story/41402202/mother-and-son-found-dead-inside-cape-coral-home  

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