Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
Prosecutors say a Lakemoor man created a homemade explosive device, which required the bomb squad to respond, and they believe he intended to blow up an alleged sex offender. Savino said he went to the house on Darrell Road and was using the home for surveillance of the sex offender, Theis said. “This defendant is showing a fixation on an
Read moreJacksonville Land Use and Zoning committee approved an ordinance that allows a day care to reopen within 2,000 feet of a sex predator. The current city code requires a 2,500-foot distance between the two. The request that the day care owner is making would shrink that distance to 1,980 feet, putting the offender just outside the radius. “There is a
Read moreThe recent resentencing of George Proulx in Flagler County exposes a deeply troubling reality: women on the sex offender registry are being left unprotected and, in some cases, actively placed in harm’s way. Proulx did not merely violate probation—he deliberately researched female registrants, studied their locations, and contacted them. The system handed him a map. Sex offender registries are publicly
Read moreThe Fresno County Board Of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved a new law limiting the number of sex offenders that can live in a single-family home. The law caps the number of sexual offenders to six per home. Property owners face fines and a six-month jail sentence for violations. About two dozen members of the public have spoken on the
Read more“I mean I’m cool with them targeting sex offenders tho.” That was a comment on the Wayne County (Ohio) Sheriff’s Office Facebook page in response to a post warning the public about a scam targeting the employers of persons required to register as sex offenders. Hopefully readers of FAC’s forum are familiar with and prepared for the scam call, but
Read moreA car was set on fire just outside the home of a man on the UK sex offender registry. A neighbor said the fire spread rapidly and that the car “literally exploded”. The neighbor added: “We were fortunate that the wind was blowing westerly, otherwise the fire could have spread to nearby homes. I don’t know exactly how it started,
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