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CLEVELAND, Ohio – You might think that all advocates for rape victims would support the practice of forcing sex offenders to publicly register their addresses after their release from prison. But you would be mistaken. Growing numbers of victim advocates and criminal justice researchers are among those who have concluded that sex offender registries are too costly and provide little

Cambridge, MA—RSOL, Inc.—a leading civil rights group advocating on behalf of registered citizens and their families—called today for the immediate repeal of Rhode Island’s newest law designed to segregate registrants, deprive them of their homes and property, and further erode the constitutional rights of American citizens. Citing the poor effectiveness of residency restrictions to promote public safety as being well

A new law in Rhode Island will make sex offenders living beyond 300 feet of a school move to a place at least 1000 feet from a school. They have 30 days to uproot their lives. Guess who thinks this will make children safer? Only the R.I. Brotherhood of Correction Officers, which sponsored the bill. No one else. Not even law

The torture started in 2006. The cities of Miami-Beach and Miami got into a war of sex offenders because Miami Beach’s ordinance drove registrants without anyplace to live over to the mainland. Miami countered by passing their own ordinance to drive them back. The result, sex offenders couldn’t find anyplace to live and were living under the Julia Tuttle Causeway;

If you are walking through the mall or another high traffic area in St. Johns County you might see pictures of sex offenders on one of six new kiosks purchased by the St. Johns County Sheriff’s office. The informational Kiosks, which will feature images of missing and wanted individuals, sex offender notifications, unsolved crimes, amber and silver alerts, safety and

The following was submitted to [email protected] and we wanted to share it with our members:   Hello,   I am a Political Science PhD student at Florida State University and last night read an article about Circles of Support & Accountability and decided to look into Florida policy. We don’t seem to have any good, evidence-based treatment programs – everything