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The Fifth District Court of Appeals last week reinforced a Florida Supreme Court ruling made last year that found “Double Jeopardy principles prohibit separate convictions based on the same conduct.” In the instant case (Huges v. Florida), the defendant was convicted and sentenced for “soliciting” and “traveling” (to meet a minor) arising from an incident where he received a response

The State Department has modified the Final Rule it published on September 2, 2016, regarding implementation of the International Megan’s Law (IML).  The modification corrects the erroneous statement in the Rule regarding whose passports will bear a “unique identifier” The modification clarifies that “unique identifiers” will be added only to the passports of individuals convicted of a sex offense that involved

Florida’s Sex Offender Registry now contains over seventy-thousand names! Here’s how the numbers break down: – 82.66% are listed as “offenders”, 16.88% are listed as “predators”, 0.47% are juveniles. – 1.51% are listed as “deceased”, while 1.17% are listed as “absconded” – 97.96% are Male, 74.74% are listed as “white” – more than 1/4 of those listed are presently confined.

SPRINGFIELD — The state’s highest court has upheld a law that requires sex offenders to disclose information about their internet identities and websites. In a unanimous decision authored by Justice Charles E. Freeman, the Illinois Supreme Court held that a provision of the Sex Offender Registration Act survived First Amendment scrutiny because it bolsters the government’s interest in protecting the

WFLA/Tampa news anchor, Dana Mills, interviewed Florida Action Committee President, Gail Colletta today for a news report on FAC’s petition, sent to Governor Rick Scott, to clean up the registry. Last month, FAC sent a petition to the Florida Governor’s office asking that the thousands of individuals appearing on the Florida Sex Offender Registry who moved out of state, are

A University at Albany assistant professor has begun looking into how sex offender registries reveal the inequalities of the criminal justice system. The findings of Trevor Hoppe, an assistant professor of sociology, have been published in his paper, “Punishing Sex: Sex Offenders and the Missing Punitive Turn in Sexuality Studies.” The study indicates that approximately 1 percent of African American