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The Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA) just issued a report on the effectiveness of residency restrictions as tools for sex offender management. The entire report can be read here, but below are some of the findings: Residency restrictions create more problems than they solve, including homelessness, transience and disproportionate clustering of offenders. Residency restrictions create housing instability.

Tarpon Springs Sylvester Johnson, 61, was charged with stabbing his neighbor, Bill Casey, 75, at their Tarpon Springs mobile home park. Casey, a Registered Sex Offender was brutally murdered in his home. Both were residents at the Palace Mobile Home Park at 2500 54th Ave. N., where over 125 sex offenders live. Blood stains and the suspect’s bloody fingerprint were

Along southern Florida’s Muck City Road, southeast of the state’s massive Lake Okeechobee and hidden among hundreds of acres of sugar cane, sits Miracle Village, pop: approximately 150. For decades, its tiny one-story residences housed migrants who worked the nearby sugar fields. Today, they house migrants of a different sort. Most of its residents are convicted sex offenders. Sofia Valiente,

Please call members of the Senate Judiciary Committee in support of Senate Bill 1690 The Second Chance Reauthorization Act.   This bill is scheduled for hearing in the Judiciary Committee this Thursday, September 19, 2014.   S 1690 will increase public safety because it provides for programs whose goals are to break the cycle of criminals reoffending after they return

Would you rent to a sex offender if the offense was a 17 with a 15 year old ?   This was the title of a blog post on a real estate blog. The post, which generated 57 (so far) comments is a glaring illustration of the actual concerns people have about “sex offenders” in the neighborhood. What was surprising

Chad Alan Hightower, a longtime officer of the Wise County Sheriff’s office, was arrested for taking nude pictures of registered citizens when they came in to do their Sex offender registration. We are familiar with the story from a couple months ago, where Police tried to take images of a teenager’s erect penis in order to prosecute him for sexting