Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
According to news in Trinidad, Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi says legislation for a national sex-offenders registry has been finalised and gone to Cabinet. “We are expecting that we will be able to lay that very shortly.” No what that registry will entail.
Read moreThe lawsuit, filed in June in U.S. District Court, demands that the state lift the offenders’ lifetime registry requirements. That would allow them access to benefits they’re cut off from because they’re on the list — including the program Hetherington was kicked out of, the HUD-Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing initiative. “The lifetime requirement is effectively lifetime parole, because you have to report even
Read moreLast year, Senator Lauren Book proposed a bill that enabled DCF (Department of Children and Families) to take a child away from their registrant (person required to register as a sex offender) parent. The bill would have created a rebuttable presumption of dangerousness, thereby allowing for the child’s removal and placement in DCF custody while the registrant parent would have
Read moreSeminole County Jail inmates can no longer handle letters or pictures mailed by family and friends as a new system requires those incarcerated to view digital copies of their messages. Under an agreement between the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office and Smart Communications Holding Inc., a Tampa-based company, the jail also plans to replace all in-person visits at the jail with
Read moreFor several months an individual operating as “The Joseph Spencer Pratt Justice Reform Advocacy Group”, an unincorporated entity, has been circulating emails cc’ed to FAC, other advocacy groups and individuals. FAC has determined it necessary to expressly ensure that anyone receiving these emails is aware that FAC has no affiliation with this Group. While the individual behind it is probably
Read moreUntouchable, the film by David Feige that features Ron Book and the impacts of the draconian sex offender laws he created is NOW AVAILABLE. When the most powerful lobbyist in Florida discovers that the nanny has sexually abused his daughter, he harnesses his extraordinary political power to pass the toughest sex offender laws in the nation. UNTOUCHABLE chronicles his crusade,
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