ACLU: BROWARD COUNTY CHAPTER ANNUAL MEETING

Sat., Mar. 10, 12-3 p.m. West Regional Library 8601 West Broward Boulevard Plantation, Florida 33324 This year’s dynamic speakers will talk about civil liberties issues that will affect Floridians in the months ahead. Panelists include: Howard Simon, ACLU of Florida executive director, will discuss the ACLU’s nationwide resistance efforts to the Trump agenda over the past year, and the work

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The Hill: The Sex Offender Registry: Vengeful, unconstitutional and due for full repeal

The following is an EXCELLENT article published in The Hill.   The Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that at least 95 percent of all state prisoners will be released from prison at some point. However, convicted sex-offenders almost exclusively face the vengeful, additional punishment of registration under the Sex Offender Registry and Notification Act (SORNA). SORNA violates our nation’s founding documents by singling

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WI: LOSING TRACK: Wisconsin doubles GPS monitoring despite five years of malfunctions, unnecessary jailings

Since he had his supervision transferred to his home state of Wisconsin in late 2016, McCormick has been repeatedly thrown in jail. He lost a job. And he continues to be disturbed by corrections officials calling him — sometimes in the middle of the night. McCormick says these barriers to reintegrating into the community stem from a GPS ankle bracelet,

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