Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
In 2020, after 10 years in prison, I was getting ready to come home—I just needed a place to live. Once out of prison I would be required to register as a sex offender, so the Tennessee Department of Correction said my release address needed to be registry-compliant. One reentry staff member said that eventually if I couldn’t find a
Read moreCalifornia bill aimed at preventing registered sex offenders from holding local elected office was halted Tuesday after a Senate committee declined to advance the measure without changes opposed by its author. Assembly Bill 2753, introduced by Assemblywoman Esmeralda Soria in February, would have prohibited anyone who is or has been required to register as a sex offender from running for
Read moreToday, FAC sent a letter to Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis in response to his comments during a recent Local 10 News investigation into homeless registrants sleeping at a Fort Lauderdale shopping center. The Mayor claimed he was surprised to learn 180 people were living homeless in this parking lot. Frankly, we found the Mayor’s statements difficult to reconcile with
Read moreA tragic incident in Florida, as reported by WESH News has once again exposed a glaring loophole in public safety policy. According to reports, a woman was killed by an alligator while swimming in a Florida river. The facts are undeniable. A woman was near a body of water. An alligator was near a body of water. A tragedy occurred.
Read moreA recent Local 10 hidden-camera investigation exposed a troubling reality hiding in plain sight in Fort Lauderdale. Reporters documented dozens of people sleeping overnight at the River Market shopping center, many of them recently released from jail or prison. Many of them registered sex offenders. Shoppers, employees, and even city officials expressed shock upon learning that people were spending their
Read moreThe then-17-year-old boy was armed with two things: his BB gun and a list of local registered sex offenders, available through a public statewide database that tracks them, according to authorities. The teen proceeded to travel around town, accosting and threatening people convicted of sex crimes, and occasionally shooting at them with the BB gun. On March 15, he was
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