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The Magistrate Judge has ruled that the plaintiffs cannot proceed anonymously. In the overwhelming (and we do mean overwhelming) majority of cases that are brought by registered citizens, the Courts allow the plaintiffs to proceed as “John Does” in order to protect their identities. In our Seminole County proximity ordinance challenge we requested the same; that the registered citizen plaintiffs

I was recently on one of the city Facebook pages and noticed a posting that someone had discovered they have a registered sex offender in their neighborhood. What I found disturbing is that the poster made a generalized statement with no details on the registrant other than that they are “Tier 3 most dangerous and most likely to offend.” Nothing

The State of Illinois is among the latest to see their “proximity ordinance” challenged. A lawsuit was filed on behalf of six registered citizens in federal court yesterday. The lawsuit specifically challenges four statutes: One that prohibits a child sex offender from knowingly being present at any “facility providing programs or services exclusively directed toward persons under the age of

While Florida continues down an irrational path, some states have come out with opinions recently that have shown a bit more reasonableness when it comes to sex offender management and probation terms.   This past Friday, the Vermont Supreme Court issued an opinion removing internet restrictions (among others) from the standard conditions of probation.  The court held that a condition

Laws are having a difficult time catching up with the times and when legislators try to create legislation to update them, sometimes their ignorance of technology creates more problems than the laws are intended to solve. Take for example the change to the definition of “internet identifiers” that will become effective in Florida this coming October. The new law requires

When she was an adolescent, Lauren Book was sexually, physically and emotionally tortured by her nanny for six years. Her abuser’s name will be forever included on a publicly available sex offender registry. So will the name of Shawna Baldwin, a hardworking and loving mother of two whose life has been blighted by a decision, when she was 19, to