News & Updates

On July 27, 2005, Miami-Dade County Commissioner Art Teele walked into the Miami Herald building asking to speak to reporter Jim DeFede, After a phone conversation with DeFede, Teele shot himself. Committed suicide right there in the lobby! Earlier that day, the Miami New Times posted a story about Teele, his pending criminal charges for corruption and some alleged connection

Although she’s running completely unopposed for Florida’s 32nd Senate District (Broward County), Lauren Book is campaigning as if she were an underdog. In the past couple months, residents of the 32nd District got two extra large, full color brochures from Lauren Book’s campaign. People in Broward have already gotten used to seeing her plastered on billboards along 595 and I-95

Yesterday, the US Department of Justice issued a press release announcing the arrest of more than 2300 suspected online child sex offenders during operation “Broken Heart”. According to the press release, “The operation targeted suspects who: (1) produce, distribute, receive and possess child pornography; (2) engage in online enticement of children for sexual purposes; (3) engage in the sex trafficking

From the National Post (Canada) Marni Soupcoff: Sex-offender registries may be doing more harm than good With little proof of effectiveness, it’s hard to see how much longer they will be considered acceptable — at least without considerable refinement A New Jersey Department of Corrections study found that the state’s sex-offender registry and warning system “cost millions of dollars and

Below is a link to the 2018 brochure from the NARSOL conference held in Independence, Ohio. It was well attended and in addition to sessions featuring attorneys and advocates, this year some legislators attended, giving their opinions on the laws! Next year’s conference will be held in Houston, TX. If you have the means and time, it’s a worthwhile and

Last week the Florida Supreme Court rendered an opinion in Levandoski v. State a case that resolved the conflict between the 1st and 4th District Court of Appeals over whether ‘sex offender probation’ conditions had to be disclosed to the defendant at sentencing. The Supreme Court upheld the 4th DCA’s opinion that, “the court’s oral pronouncement that Levandoski would be subject to