Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
The story of Bill Conradt is one of the darkest chapters in the history of the show To Catch a Predator. Conradt was an assistant district attorney in Texas who became the target of a sting operation in 2006. Instead of falling for the bait, he never showed up at the decoy house. That should have been the end of
Read moreFor years, legislators have enacted Sex Offender Residency Restrictions (SORRs), prohibiting people on the registry from living within 1,000, 2,000, or even 2,500 feet of places where children congregate, such as schools, parks, playgrounds and daycares. These laws sound simple in theory, but in practice they leave only tiny slivers of land available for housing. The result is predictable: registrants
Read moreIn the Bible Belt, there’s basically a church on every corner—especially here in Nashville. It feels like there should be so many options to choose from if you want to join a faith community. But the church doors are often closed to people on the sex offender registry, including myself. Sex offender registries are designed so that society treats you
Read moreA Louisiana Couple has asked a federal judge to issue a preliminary injunction blocking St. Tammany Parish from enforcing its new ordinance restricting where people on the sex offense registry can live. The law seeks to prevent “clustering” of registrants and impose additional housing restrictions. The case is somewhat similar to what is happening here in Putnam County and will
Read moreA man accused in a deadly Fremont stabbing last week allegedly admitted to police that he was targeting registered sex offenders as potential victims. Varun Suresh, 29, of Fremont, has been charged with murder in connection to the stabbing death of a 71-year-old man that occurred Thursday. “Evidence at the scene indicated a violent struggle,” Fremont PD said. “The victim
Read moreLast week, a 31 year old man convicted of child exploitation in Michigan — was found “unresponsive” at USP Coleman II, the same Florida prison where Larry Nassar was stabbed multiple times in 2023. The Bureau of Prisons issued a short statement: he was taken to a hospital, pronounced dead, and the FBI was notified. No cause of death was
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