Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
A recent report by WESH 2 News should force Florida lawmakers to answer a question they have avoided for far too long. A 17-year-old Marion County teen (teen being the operative word, a “child” or a “minor” himself) was sentenced to five years in prison and ten years of probation after using Roblox to lure children into producing sexual content.
Read moreAre you carrying more emotional weight than you should have to? Being on the registry, having been incarcerated, or even loving someone who has gone through the system — it leaves a mark. The stress, the stigma, the constant pressure… it doesn’t just go away. For many, it shows up in everyday life as anxiety, anger, hyper-awareness, or feeling constantly
Read moreWe say it all the time. If you don’t challenge one city’s bad ordinance, the neighboring cities will pass laws too. It’s essentially a domino effect when it comes to residency restrictions. One city concocts a law to restrict people on the sex offender registry from living there, and then the cities adjacent to it has to pass a similar
Read moreA recent Spectrum News story, “Homeless families placed in motels find unwelcome neighbors: sex offenders” sounds exactly like the kind of headline meant to stir people up. But if you get past the headline, the story tells a very different truth. Buried in the article is something lawmakers rarely admit: people on the registry can’t find housing. Not because they
Read moreMaine State Police is warning of a scam that is targeting sex offenders in the state. The issue was brought to those who run the Sex Offender Registry that the scam is targeting registered people on probation in Maine. A letter is being mailed to people, claiming to be from the ‘Maine Probation Tonduary.’ The letter claims there has been
Read moreA new meta-analysis is reinforcing what researchers have been saying for years: Florida’s one-size-fits-all approach of keeping everyone on the registry for life and subjecting them to the same sweeping restrictions runs directly counter to the evidence. Drawing on 30 non-overlapping samples, the study found that individuals whose offenses are limited to Child Sexual Exploitation Material (CSEM) have very low
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