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Florida’s Fifth District Court of Appeals reversed an order designating a man as a “sexual predator” after he had completed his sentence. The Appeals court found that the lower court lacked jurisdiction over the individual to enter the order. The case is McKenzie v. Florida (Case No. 5D18-2206) and the facts are the following: Defendant was sentenced to six months’

A 62 year old man in Utah is dead after the brother of a 16 year old teenager who accused him of sexual assault killed him. The girl told her brother that the man sexually assaulted her on the bus. When the man got off on his stop, the brother followed him off the bus, tackled him to the ground

A set of bills passed the Florida House and Senate earlier this month that would build a database of people convicted for soliciting sex, and which sex workers and advocates say will ruin lives and put them at more risk. Senate Bill 540 and House Bill 851, when signed into law, will set up a database that includes anyone convicted

The Alaska legislature recently passed H.B. 49, which increases the maximum period of probation for sex offenders and bars sex offenders from receiving good time credit while in prison or on parole. Although we focus on consequences of registration and not necessarily punishment for sex offenses, it is concerning to us that lawmakers in Alaska are still distinguishing one class

Florida lawmakers just voted to create a public registry of people caught paying or attempting to pay for sex. After an initial defeat in the Florida House of Representatives, the registry—arguably the worst part of a new Florida crime bill capitalizing on human-trafficking propaganda—was revived and reinserted before the measure’s passage in the Florida Senate. The final version, approved last

Violent crime in the US is at its lowest rate in decades. But you wouldn’t know that from a crop of increasingly popular social media apps that are forming around crime. Apps like Nextdoor, Citizen, and Amazon Ring’s Neighbors — all of which allow users to view local crime in real time and discuss it with people nearby — are