Miami-Dade to hear Bovo Amendment tomorrow

Tomorrow, the Miami-Dade County Public Safety and Health Committee will consider a proposed amendment to the county’s “overnight camping” ordinance, which effectively enables police officers to arrest transient sex offenders on sight. More about the proposed change can be found here: https://floridaactioncommittee.org/miami-dade-commissioners-want-cops-to-arrest-homeless-sex-offenders-on-sight/ Our President, Gail, who was planning to speak on our behalf, was called out of state when her

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The Dobbs Wire: Who should join the fight against the registry?

Scarlet letters:  In a new essay Guy Hamilton-Smith opens with a wide view of this punishment-crazed country and then comes in for a close-up look at 21st century scarlet letters. The number of people forced to sign the sex offense registry continues to climb and is now close to 900,000.  Evidence mounts that registries do not improve public safety or

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CT: Sentencing Commission Tackles Sex Offender Registration Reform

HARTFORD, CT — The public got a chance Monday to weigh in on three proposals that would change Connecticut’s criminal justice system in very different ways. One proposal would change which sex offenders would have to continue to appear on the sex offender registry, another proposes a constitutional amendment on pretrial release and detention, and a third would reduce a

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