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Redemption:  Is redemption possible or are wrongdoers forever condemned?  Chicago’s renowned Steppenwolf Theater Company tackles that issue with “Downstate,” a new play by Pulitzer and Tony Award-winner Bruce Norris premiering in Chicago on Sept. 20 and running through Nov. 11, 2018; the play is already slated for a London production in spring 2019.  Downstate comes to the stage as the

A new play by Bruce Norris will begin its run at the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago this Thursday. “Downstate” is about a group of registered sex offenders living together and the challenges they face. It is not the first play to cover the topic of sex offenders and hopefully the added exposure to the topic will foster discussion on the

Next week, the State of Florida is encouraging Dads to become involved in their children’s education, by promoting a “take your Dad to work day” A proclamation from Governor Scott touts all the benefits of having ones father or father figure involved in their upbringing. Yet – a segment of Florida’s children (thousands, in fact) are not able to have

According to this article, Arkansas also has something “funny” with it’s sex offender registry, We have long been reporting that Florida claims to have over 73,000 people on its sex offender registry, but fewer than half are in the community. MOST, in fact, are not in the community at all; they are incarcerated, deported, not living in Florida or are

The below is a cut and paste (and redacted) version of a letter sent by the Florida Action Committee in response to one of our members’ passport being taken from him at the airport by 3 US Marshals as he tried to board an international flight. We are extremely concerned that the Department of State has abandoned the process of

The following is a cut and paste of ICE’s information page on IML and Passports: Passports and International Megan’s Law The passport identifier provision of International Megan’s Law to Prevent Child Exploitation and Other Sexual Crimes Through Advanced Notification of Traveling Sex Offenders (IML) (Public Law 114-119) went into effect on October 31, 2017. The IML prohibits the Department of