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August 23, 2013 Contact: Gail Colletta 561.305.4959 Lake Monroe, FL— August 23, 2013. Advocating Violence against Sex Offenders Yesterday, a Texas couple was charged with beating a man. Their reason? As Action 4 News reported, “[b]oth of them told police that they did it because the man was a sex offender.” Today a man was sentenced to life in prison

August 20, 2013 Contact: Gail Colletta 561.305.4959 Lake Monroe, FL— August 20, 2013. Fixing the Broken Civil Commitment System in Florida “Sex Predators Unleashed” was the headline on the cover of Sunday’s Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel. The attention-grabbing story highlighted several instances where Florida’s civil commitment program had failed victims by not keeping those considered for civil commitment locked up. The

August 6, 2013 Contact: Gail Colletta 561.305.4959 Lake Monroe, FL— August 6, 2013. Where’s the Fire? An Observation on Sex Offenders in the Media  During the past week we’ve issued three press releases concerning a very pressing issue. Miami-Dade County is expelling about 100 registered sex offenders from the trailers and apartments they have lived in for years because a

July 30, 2013 Contact: Gail Colletta 561.305.4959 Lake Monroe, FL— July 30, 2013. Evicted Miami-Dade Sex Offenders are Homeless by Railroad Tracks  Following international media attention that brought embarrassment to the State of Florida, the County of Miami-Dade shut down the Julia Tuttle Sex Offender Camp in 2010. For years prior, sex offenders were sent to live under the bridge

July 30, 2013 Contact: Gail Colletta 561.305.4959 Lake Monroe, FL— July 30, 2013. Part 2: Coming Soon to Your Neighborhood: More Homeless Sex Offenders Last month the Florida Action Committee issued a press release entitled “Coming Soon to Your Neighborhood: More Homeless Sex Offenders”. The article highlighted the problem created from rapidly growing numbers of “registered sex offenders” with rapidly

July 29, 2013 Contact: Gail Colletta 561.305.4959 Lake Monroe, FL— July 29, 2013. Sex Offender Registry has Become an Online Hit List  What was once a tool for law enforcement to quickly locate potential suspects in the event of a sexual crime, has now become an online hit list. Last week Charles and Gretchen Parker of Union County, South Carolina,