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A tenant-landlord dispute may leave 30 convicted sex offenders without a place to live in Pinellas County. The Palace Mobile Home Park is home to 150 convicted sex offenders. “I had molested my 8-year-old son. I was sentenced to 11 years in prison followed by 15 on probation,” said Tracy Hutchinson, one of the park’s residents. Hutchinson and other residents

This Month’s Member Call will take place on Thursday, April 2, 2015 at 8:00 PM The topic of this meeting will be the state of Litigation. Our guest will be Attorney Brandon Buskey, Staff Attorney for ACLU National and one of the lead attorneys in our case challenging the residency restrictions in Miami-Dade County. Call in information is: 1. Dial

WASHINGTON — State programs that use GPS systems to monitor sex offenders could eventually be jeopardized based on a preliminary Supreme Court ruling Monday. The justices gave a North Carolina sex offender another chance to prove in state court that being forced to wear a GPS monitoring bracelet for life could be unconstitutional. More than 40 states have passed laws

The Florida Action Committee, along with the Jacob Wetterling Resource Center, Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers, Massachusetts ATSA and RSOL, were named as Amici in an Amicus Brief filed in the Massachusetts Supreme Court. The case, which is a constitutional challenge to the Massachusetts residency restrictions, is presently before the Massachusetts supreme court on the City of Lynn’s

Clearly seeing how successful (NOT!) the results of Miami-Dade County’s 2500 county-wide sex offender residency restriction (SEE 160+ PEOPLE LIVING HOMELESS BY THE RAILROAD TRACKS IN MIAMI) are, Pasco is considering doing the same. Next month they will consider imposing a 2500 foot residency restriction. Now FAC is already suing Miami-Dade over theirs… looks like 2015 is gearing up to

Proposed study will look at whether sheriffs should take over probation from the state. TALLAHASSEE, Florida — With new problems surfacing daily at the Department of Corrections, one powerful lawmaker is pushing for a study that could lead to local sheriffs taking over felony probation supervision from the state. Future Speaker of the House, Rep. Richard Corcoran, R-Land O’ Lakes,