Controversy highlights difficulty of housing sex offenders who have completed their sentences

At a public meeting in Joliet, residents stood up and spoke out against an apartment building that houses sex offenders in a city neighborhood — with one resident lamenting that she wouldn’t let children play outside unless she was on her lunch break, according to a video taken by an attendee. Other residents, according to accounts of some at the

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MUST READ: Sex offender registries don’t make us any safer. Abolishing them would

This is a MUST READ and MUST SHARE article from Emily Horowitz. Much thanks to Emily for calling out many of the atrocities taking place here in Florida. . There is a growing consensus that our approach to punishment in the criminal legal system creates more harm rather than reduce it. Yet we summarily exclude those with sex offenses from

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FAC Sends Letter to Bahamian Minister of National Security

The below link is a copy of a letter sent to the Bahamian Minister of National Security. After that country decided to make their registry public, a released individual was murdered. The Minister expressed his concern about publicizing the registry. FAC sent a letter encouraging him not to follow the misguided example of the US. Letter to Bahamian National Security

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