News & Updates

It’s that time of year again: Hurricane Season. With the first potential Hurricane to hit Florida this coming Monday, WE ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO CONTACT THEIR LOCAL REGISTRATION OFFICE TO FIND OUT WHAT PROVISIONS ARE BEING MADE FOR PERSONS REQUIRED TO REGISTER IN YOUR COUNTY AND SHARING THAT INFORMATION IN THE COMMENTS TO THIS POST. THE CONTACT INFORMATION FOR YOUR COUNTY

The association representing medical doctors in Indonesia said Tuesday it would refuse to take part in chemically castrating the first convict sentenced to such punishment under the country’s toughened up child-protection laws against pedophiles. The Indonesian Medical Association (IDI) said it would have no role in the castration, even though such corporal punishment was sanctioned under amendments to child-protection laws

At the link below you can listen to the City of New Smyrna Beach consider a Sex Offender Residency Restriction: Listen to Audio You will hear how misguided and misinformed the Commission is. We can only hope the ACLU brings a lawsuit.  

I just found out I have to travel to Maryland next week for a business meeting. So I got online to look at the requirements. Maryland does not have residency restrictions. If that is not good enough, Maryland is actually against residency restrictions for the same reason we fight against them here in Florida. The registry FAQ website is  https://www.dpscs.state.md.us/onlineservs/sor/frequently_asked_questions.shtml

A recent decision out of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals gives us a peek inside the Florida Civil Commitment Center. As the Opinion begins, “James Pesci is a detainee at the Florida Civil Commitment Center (FCCC), a for-profit facility that houses sex offenders  involuntarily committed under Florida’s Involuntary Civil Commitment of Sexually Violent Predators Act. Pesci is not a

The trial of advocate, Galen Baughman, will begin this coming Monday to determine whether he will be civilly committed. Civil commitment is the involuntary detention of an individual beyond the expiration of their sentence. In other words, after a defendant’s criminal sanction is completed, certain states (Florida included) have laws that will allow the government to keep an individual locked