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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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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