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Weekly Update 2018-01-10 Dear Members and Advocates, As this year’s legislative session kicks into gear, there are many bills recently introduced that will be on our radar. Senator Lauren Book has just put out a bunch of proposed bills that will require attention. Among them are: SB 1214 – Creates a rebuttable presumption of dangerousness to a child if a parent

Weekly Update 2018-01-03 Dear Members and Advocates, Please Join us tomorrow night for our monthly member call and help us kick off 2018! The holidays are over, we are starting a new year and it’s time to roll up our sleeves and get back to work! In this call, our President, Gail Colletta, will be presenting our goals for the

Weekly Update 2017-12-28 Dear Members and Advocates, It’s a strange thing… If you pay someone for sex, it’s considered prostitution and that’s a crime. But, if you pay someone for sex AND videotape it – that’s pornography, which is legal and protected by the first amendment of the constitution! There’s a similar paradox when it comes to consensual sexting among

Weekly Update 2017-12-21 Dear Members and Advocates, This holiday season, our warmest wishes go out to you and your families. For those who are able to spend the holidays with your family, cherish them. For those who are separated from family as a consequence of the registry, who are forced into homelessness or who are currently incarcerated, you are not

Weekly Update 2017-12-13 Dear Members and Advocates, It was a disappointing day in the Miami-Dade County Legislature, as the Commissioners on the Public Safety Committe passed through a proposed amendment that would allow police to arrest homeless sex offenders without offering them shelter, as they would for any other homeless individual. While disappointing, it was not unexpected. As expected, lobbyist