AK: Theatre Co. will drop an actor who is a registered sex offender

ANCHORAGE (KTUU) – A registered sex offender who performs with Cyrano’s Theatre Co. will no longer be acting with the company. Jenson Seifert lists Cyrano’s as his employer on the state’s sex offender registry. He is a former teacher at Birchwood Christian School who was charged, and later served time, for sexually abusing a minor. At the time, police accused

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Enough is enough: School district warns parents about registrant’s own children’s party.

Last week we reported about a person required to register for working as a santa. While there was nothing illegal about what he was doing, the fact that he failed to report it as “employment” earned him a registration violation charge and a whole lot of unnecessary exposure. The man’s offense was 25 years ago. He has gone on to

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New House Bill to track sexual assault DNA testing kits

House Bill 83 has been introduced in the Florida Legislature. The bill would establish a state-wide information system to track and manage, ” the location, lab submission status, testing, completion, and storage of each kit required to be submitted for testing” and give the victim access to that status and whether the DNA collected from their assault kit matched anyone in

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New Bill seeks to eliminate statute of limitations in sexual battery prosecutions

Florida Senate Bill 130, Sponsored by Senator Stewart, seeks to eliminate the statute of limitations for prosecution of a sexual battery against someone younger than 18. The amended language reads, “If a victim is younger than 18 years of age at the time the offense was committed, a prosecution for a violation of s. 794.011 may be commenced at any time.”

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