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Palm Beach County government will no longer ask job candidates to disclose their criminal history on their application. The county is joining the national “ban-the-box” initiative, which seeks to prevent felons from being screened out for employment just because of their criminal record. On Friday, the county stopped asking applicants if they had ever been convicted of a felony offense,

Title 1 of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 created an all-inclusive state-by-state registry of convicted sex offenders. Known as the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, Title 1 also attempted the impossible: to protect the public, particularly children, from convicted sexual predators who had done their time and were now back on the street. It

FAC President, Gail Colletta, is attending the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers’ (NACDL) Convention in Las Vegas. The NACDL will be featuring a Sex Crimes training seminar, at which CaliforniaRSOL President, Janice Bellucci will be a speaker. It is an excellent opportunity for FAC to network with attorneys, solicit help and to expand our organization.

Follow the money. How often has this advice been given, and how often has the heeding of it led to the unraveling of an enigma or a crime. The sex offender industry is both, and following the money trail reveals what lies at the heart and continues to drive this occasionally well-meaning but more often self-serving complexity of businesses, individuals,

TALLAHASSEE — Jack Abramoff, one of Washington’s most notorious former lobbyists, came to Tallahassee on Tuesday as part of his crusade against what he calls “the corrupting influence of money on public policy.” He called out a constitutional amendment on solar energy backed by the state’s utilities, as “one of the oldest lobbyists’ tricks in the book” because it is

An advocacy group is challenging California in a controversial lawsuit over a public sex offender database, claiming the state’s inaction has led to the fatal attacks of four individuals. The lawsuit, filed on Nov. 10 by a pair of registered sex offenders and the advocacy group California Reform Sex Offender Laws, alleges that Attorney General Kamala Harris and the state’s Department of Justice