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Duval County State Attorney Melissa Nelson and Sheriff Mike Williams unveiled a new program to streamline the process for those caught driving with an invalid or suspended driver’s license. The fee for such an offense is $322, but because many people can’t afford to pay it all at once, they wind up jailed. Also, until they can pay, they can’t

From the Miami Herald Miami has officially moved to dissolve a 20-year-old legal agreement that protects the city’s homeless from undue police harassment — a change that would allow the police to arrest the homeless for loitering. The city filed a motion in federal court Wednesday to terminate the Pottinger agreement, a consent decree that prevents police from arresting homeless

The State of Missouri is considering creating a tiered registry that would allow some with less serious offenses to petition for removal. It’s a move that some other states are considering or have implemented. The bill can be read here: https://legiscan.com/MO/text/SB655/2018 UPDATE: The governor did not sign this bill.

FROM SOSEN Jan has agreed to share her story to raise awareness about the inhumane and devastating effects these continuously changing laws have on the former offender, their families, children and society as a whole. Although this is Jan’s story, it is similar to the over 850,0001 men, women and children (as young as 8) who are on a sex

An interesting article in the Atlanta Journal Constitution Shortcomings in Georgia’s sex offender registration program are going to cost the state hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal grant money, according to a letter the U.S. Department of Justice sent to the governor. The state receives from $4.9 million to almost $5.9 million annually from the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice

This past legislative session, a bill passed the Florida legislature that will bring two significant changes to the sex offender registration statute. The first; it reduces the amount of time before a location is considered a “residence” from 5 to 3 days. That means; travel for a long weekend would necessitate reporting, where it previously wound not have. The second;