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Last week, Miami-Dade County filed a Motion for Summary Judgment in Does v. Miami-Dade, a challenge to the Sex Offender Residency Restrictions that have caused the notorious encampments of homeless sex offenders. A Motion for Summary Judgment, in lay terms, is a motion asking the Court to rule that the other party doesn’t have a case. In legal terms, it’s

SOURCE: Miami Herald The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a federal civil rights investigation into sexual misconduct by correctional officers as well as other abuses against women at Lowell Correctional Institution in Central Florida. The investigation comes after years of complaints by inmates and activists, who organized in the aftermath of a 2015 Miami Herald investigation, “Beyond Punishment.’’ The

In several cases, the Canadian Government has been reluctant to extradite individuals who flee persecution in the United States when facing punishment for sex offenses. It’s not that the Canadians are more tolerant of sex crimes, they are absolutely not! It’s that they are less tolerant of the draconian, often lifetime sanctions imposed on all those who are deemed “registered

That’s a quote from Lobbyist and Chair of the Miami-Dade “Homeless Trust”, Ron Book. “No one who has served our country should be forced to sleep on the streets.” Or how about this one from Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart; “I congratulate Miami-Dade County on this immense achievement and am proud to join them to recognize veteran homelessness reaching functional zero.” That

Source: The Week Following are some excerpts from a great article on the private prison system. To read the entire article, click on the link above. Today, private prisons incarcerate about 9 percent of all U.S. prisoners, and 19 percent of all federal prisoners. About 75 percent of all immigrants detained by ICE are also in private prisons. CoreCivic has

This email was submitted by a member. If readers can help encourage the Lee County Sheriff’s office to take this concern seriously and investigate the source, it would be appreciated. [M]y Det. called me back later and said they called the number that had called me, and it was some sort of recording that they were a Sex Offender Registration