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A California appeals court threw out a Dept. of Corrections policy that barred sex offenders from being released on early parole. This ban had been enforced – even if the sex offender was not serving a sentence for a sex crime. The majority opinion, written by Justice Dorothy C. Kim of Div. Five, only invalidates the department’s rule that registered sex

Let this serve as a reminder for all persons required to register. Anyone who plans to attend their family member’s school event needs to get the school’s permission first. A registered sex offender in Osceola County has been arrested for allegedly setting foot on school grounds. David XXXXX, 36, is on the Florida sex offender registry for a case out

Last year, a group of progressive activists convinced the Florida Democratic Party to stop accepting campaign donations from private, for-profit prison companies. The industry, which makes billions by keeping other human beings behind bars, immorally incentivizes cities to needlessly lock people up, many activists agree. One of America’s two largest private-prison firms, Boca Raton-based GEO Group, is a major donor

Florida State Senator Lauren Book, introduced Senate Bill 540 last week. Included in her bill is the establishment of a “Soliciting for Prostitution Registry”. Her bill also wants every law enforcement officer to be trained in investigating human trafficking and, “The training must be developed in consultation with the Department of Children and Families.” DCF is the same agency she, only

The City of Brookfield, Wisconsin amended its Sex Offender Residency Restriction (SORR) after another city’s SORR was declared unconstitutional. Others are implementing their own SORR. These decisions have nothing to do with public safety! They are made for political reasons. Brookfield’s city attorney said the change would “protect the city from future lawsuits.” So they loosened it. The city of

In Archie v. State, a case decided last week in Florida’s Fifth District Court of Appeals, we are reminded that probation violations (unlike registration violations) need to be willful and substantial. Archie, who was on sex offender probation, was violated for (among other things) traveling outside his county without the approval of his probation officer. Although he was wearing a