German Court Grants Protection to Florida Sex Offender Registrant on Human Rights Grounds

SOURCE: Steven Whitsett, Baden-Württemberg, Germany Sending registrants back to prison for mere administrative violations of Florida’s sex offender registry violates human rights law.  How’s that for a bit of good news? After paying my “debt to society” by completing a lengthy prison term in Florida and two years of supervision, I decided that I didn’t owe anything further and was

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Gainesville city commissioners consider changes to city’s sexual offender ordinance

Gainesville City Commissioners passed a motion to craft a proposed amendment to the current Sexual Offender and Sexual Predator Ordinance in place to mirror the state statute. [FAC NOTE: THIS WOULD BE GOOD!] “I think it just makes a consistency and so it’s legally defensible. You know, that we’re not sort of afield of what is already accepted through the

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IN: Man shows no remorse for fatally shooting registered sex offender

A man in Indiana told deputies he has no remorse for fatally shooting a registered sex offender, authorities said. According to the Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office, 34-year-old Ricky Allen Kiper Jr. shot and killed 41-year-old James C. McClernon on Wednesday. Investigators said Kiper knocked on the front door of a home, asked for McClernon, then shot him. Officials said Kiper

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WA: SO board discusses legislative reforms

The Washington sex offender policy board met Thursday afternoon to discuss what its next report to the legislature should include in terms of policy recommendations. The board was created in 2008 and its main goal has been to help make policy recommendations to the legislature that would be helpful to sex offenders trying to reassimilate into society after finishing their

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