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A weekend inmate death at Century Correctional Institution is under investigation. Inmate Wesley C. Moore, 38, was pronounced deceased at the prison shortly after 7:00 p.m. Saturday. The death is currently under investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, with assistance from the Department’s Office of the Inspector General, according to Patrick Manderfield, press secretary for the Florida Department

California, which has the largest sex offender registry in the US, has been taking steps in the right direction over the past couple of years. The State recently migrated towards a “tiered” system that would allow some registrants (those deemed “lower” risk to re-offend) to be removed from the registry eventually. While the plan wasn’t perfect, because it tiered people

Source More than 170 people required to register, their loved ones and supporters from 14 states attended the second annual ACSOL conference in Los Angeles on June 15 and June 16. The conference included four plenary speakers as well as 12 workshops. “We shared information, energy and support during the conference,” stated ACSOL Executive Director Janice Bellucci. “We also provided

Source: FloridaPolitics.com Incumbent state Sen. Lauren Book had another month of big spending. After shelling out more than $40,000 in April, she followed it up by topping more than $50,000 in May spending. Book’s impressive fundraising totals made those expenditures possible. She still sits on nearly $800,000 between her campaign and committee accounts. Most of May’s spending went toward campaign

In April, we wrote about an FAC member currently exiled from his home country because of International Megan’s Law. One of our members, who has a decades-old conviction, for which he got probation, left the country 17 years ago and hasn’t come back. He went on to live a good life in this other country, established a business, got married

FAC COMMENT: Gotta wonder how courts could argue that this is “non-punitive” when an individual gets a monetary judgment for being wrongly labeled? Would he have gotten six figures if the state wrongly marked him as a price club member? I think not! The county has agreed to settle a lawsuit involving a man who was wrongfully listed as a