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Miami Herald Editorial Board May 23, 2018 12:40 AM When Florida House Speaker Richard Corcoran convinced the House to pass ethics rules in 2016 that require lobbyist for local governments and other tax-funded entities to disclose their contracts, it was a victory for transparency. Finally, the public would see how much public money their local governments were spending to lobby

Miami Herald: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article211652004.html#storylink=cpy Three weeks ago, 100 men lived in the dorms at Turning Point Bridge Community Release Center in Pompano Beach. During the day they held jobs serving food at local restaurants or building shipping pallets at a local plant. In the evenings, they worked on themselves, taking classes and preparing for better futures. Then, from one day to

A North Carolina Appellate Court ruled that a twice convicted sex offender (1997 and 2006) could not be brought back to Court and retroactively sanctioned with lifetime GPS years later. The defendant was dragged back into court in 2013, 7 years later, and ordered to wear a GPS. He argued that the requirement to wear the ankle bracelet violates his

SOURCE “The anonymity of the Internet has allowed predators to easily hide or misrepresent themselves.”  – ABC News, August 2017 “Concerns about sexual predators have led communities in 30 U.S. states to adopt laws limiting where registered sex offenders can live.” – Reuters, November 2015 “Convicted Sexual Predator Allowed to Stay in Hotel During Cancer Treatments” – WFTV 9, May

The below video is from the recent argument before the Illinois Supreme Court in People v. Bingham. Jerome Bingham, who committed a sexual offense more than 30 years ago, was arrested for stealing pallets. As a consequence of his stealing these wooden pallets and a further consequence of a 2012 change in the Illinois law that required anyone with a

Gotta love John Oliver. Here’s another gem from Last Week Tonight on Crime and Forensic Science.