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As if it wasn’t bad enough that people convicted of Murder or a Sex Offense were excluded from Amendment 4, which restored former felon’s rights to vote upon completion of their sentence, Governor Elect Ron Desantis wants to stop registrants from voting entirely, even those who were never convicted of a felony and who never lost their right to vote.

The U.S. Sentencing Commission voted to publish for comment proposed amendments to the federal sentencing guidelines, including a proposal concerning how sentencing courts determine if a prior conviction is a “crime of violence” under the guidelines. You can read the proposed amendments here. The public is invited to submit comment to [email protected]

ANCHORAGE (KTUU) – A registered sex offender who performs with Cyrano’s Theatre Co. will no longer be acting with the company. Jenson Seifert lists Cyrano’s as his employer on the state’s sex offender registry. He is a former teacher at Birchwood Christian School who was charged, and later served time, for sexually abusing a minor. At the time, police accused

The following was submitted by a member I obtained a new passport as an RSO in Florida last year just before the new “scarlet letter” law was passed. It contained no mark. After reading on your website the story about the man detained for just this reason, I re-applied for my passport thinking they would automatically imprint the poison on

Last week we reported about a person required to register for working as a santa. While there was nothing illegal about what he was doing, the fact that he failed to report it as “employment” earned him a registration violation charge and a whole lot of unnecessary exposure. The man’s offense was 25 years ago. He has gone on to

According to an article in the Daily Mail, a UK news outlet, “Prison rape in America – perpetrated by both inmates and staff – remains pervasive.” 15 years after the Prison Rape Elimination Act was passed in 2003. Florida has one of the worst prison systems in the country. 9.8% of inmates at the Northwest Florida Reception Center in Chipley