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Kansas has started the conversation about making changes to the registry, but they still have a long way to go. Kansas does not have residency restrictions. The good part of the discussion: The Council of State Governments found that requiring an offender to register did not reduce recidivism. The penalty for failing to register is too strong. There are 423

A senior housing complex is relocating a resident, who had been living there since March, simply because he was found to have a past sex offense from 1983.  This man has not been arrested for any additional crimes since his release from prison in 1991.  I have to wonder if the “sex crime” that sent him to prison is still

An investigator with the St. Paul Police Department has been placed on paid leave after federal judges rebuked her for lying to a grand jury concerning a sex trafficking case.  The investigator also lied during a detention hearing. Prosecutors in St. Paul are now trying to determine what to do with other cases that the investigator was involved with, as

Statistically Speaking Many of you know I am a computer programmer by trade, so statistics and analytics are definitely in my wheel house. Last year, while on the Dr. Phil show I asked an ICAC task force police officer what I felt was an important question. If you are interested in saving children, if that is the reason you run

State Attorney Andrew Warren will chair the Florida Democratic Party’s new Safety and Justice Task Force with a goal of improving safety for Floridians while respecting individuals’ rights.  This task force will also be looking at ways to increase transparency and cut down waste. Florida Action Committee does not take a stand on politics but would like to see all

Our jury system asks jurors to make decisions that have enormous consequences for citizens and their family members.  The tough-on-crime laws of the 1990s, which lengthened many sentences to decades in prison, were sold to Floridians as being for the worst-of-the-worst criminals.  What we have found, though, is that these harsh laws have caught up many people for whom they