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Ten years ago videographer/photographer Max Schulte and I did a project about sex offenders in Monroe County. The project — the first largely video project at the Democrat and Chronicle — focused on how state lawmakers created laws that greatly increased the number of sex offenders on public registries, but the state provided little in the way of additional resources for police and

[FAC COMMENTARY INSERTED]   TAMPA — There are so few places for newly registered sex offenders to live in Pasco County that Hillsborough County officials worry they’ll start moving here. The solution? Make it as hard for them to live in Hillsborough as it is to live in Pasco. [SO THIS ‘SOLUTION’ DOES NOT SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF SEXUAL OFFENDING,

When police arrived at her house to arrest her on May 8, 2013, Tammy Bond turned to her niece and said: “Aunt Tammy did something wrong.” At age 45, she had a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old. She was convicted of aggravated criminal sexual abuse and, like 26,000 others in Illinois, required to register as a sex offender for the

Commissioners are: Leslie Miller Chairman 813-272-5720, Victor Crist, Co Chairman 813-272-5452, Sandra Murman 813-272-5470 Stacey White, chaplain 813-272-5740, Ken Hagan 813-272-5725, Kevin Beckner 813-272-5730, and Al Higginbotham 813-272-5735. For email link go to: https://webappsnet.hillsboroughcounty.org/Forms/BOCC/contactCommissioners Article background: Commissioners are proposing the 2500 foot rule on all registrants to keep ‘in line’ with the recently passed Pasco Co. ordinance, the county immediately

Council of State Governments Justice Center 444 N.  Capitol Street NW Washington, DC 20001 To Whom It May Concern, Our organization, Florida Action Committee represents the estimated 70 thousand persons on the Florida sex offender registry as well as the impact on hundreds of thousands of families and communities that are increasingly impacted by the registry.  We readily acknowledge that

Very often we will read a story about an assaulted or missing child, where there are no suspects but “police are investigating the 100 registered sex offenders in the area”. As if when something like this happens the registry immediately narrowed down the pool of suspects to a limited group that the police should focus on. The stories invariably list