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Update for Incarcerated in Florida: Legal Mail Access Tightens: New Rule Takes Effect August 5th, 2025

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Starting August 5th, 2025, new changes to F.A.C. 33-210.102 regarding legal mail will place additional barriers on attorneys writing to incarcerated individuals in Florida. This recently approved rule change will severely limit how attorneys can send legal correspondence and may result in delays, denials, or returns of legitimate legal mail. What’s Changing: Attorneys must now register with FDC and obtain

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News & Updates Other States 

Second Chances not a consideration in Woodstock, NY

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This week, the Woodstock, NY Town Board voted to terminate a town maintenance worker who is also a registrant on New York’s sex offense registry. The decision came after a tense and emotionally charged meeting where community members and board officials clashed over how to handle Innello’s employment and past convictions. While the vote to fire Innello ultimately passed, what

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Foreign News & Updates 

UK: This is insanity!

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A Manchester (UK) school teacher has been banned from the classroom for two years after failing to declare her relationship with a sex offender. This article provides the details, but the outcome is outrageous. First, they boyfriend was in prison – so he was a risk to nobody. Second, the boyfriend wasn’t the teacher. She was. Does this mean to

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News & Updates Research 

Useful Study: Factors Impacting upon Attitudes Toward Sex Offenders (2017)

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Below is a link to an older (2017) study, but one which contains a good deal of helpful research. It’s Factors Impacting upon Attitudes Toward Sex Offenders: The Role of Conservatism and Knowledge by Michelle K. Rosselli and Elizabeth L. Jeglic from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. It’s a worthwhile read. Factors Impacting

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Foreign News & Updates 

UK: New drama examines impacts of sexual offense on family trying to move on.

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A new drama due to air on BBC Two and iPlayer this week examines the extensive ripple effect of abuse from multiple perspectives and how those involved can try to move forwards in the midst of the devastation. “Unforgivable” features the Mitchell family and how they deal with the devastating aftermath of an act of sexual abuse committed by a

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