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Miami-Dade county is considering amending Section 21-286 of the County Code – prohibiting overnight camping, eliminating a safeguard to protect against arrest, when applied to registered sex offenders or predators. Currently, the County Code prevents overnight camping on County property. If an individual does not leave the property, they will be arrested for trespassing. However, the Code also provides that

A couple of months ago, the hot topic here in Florida was emergency preparedness during a hurricane. With a category 4 storm approaching, Florida sex offenders who were homeless or in evacuation zones were scrambling to find shelter – only to discover that they were banned from most County shelters. We argued the absurdity of certain sex offender laws during

Although not directly related to a sex offender issue, of interest to anyone with a loved one incarcerated in the Federal Bureau of Prisons; the Feds announced they have cut significantly from the budget – ending contracts with 16 facilities since the new administration has come into power. Halfway houses have provided a valuable step-down program to help people re-enter

Reading this story on ThinkProgress.org, you almost forget they are talking about human lives. The CEO of Geo Group, the Florida-based private prison company that operates facilities across the US, including the Florida Civil Commitment Center for Civilly Committed Sex Offenders who are held indefinitely, was talking about how happy he was about the company’s third quarter results. Essentially, they

This news story features the risk – an actual, likely danger – to people whose addresses are listed on the Sex Offender registry, even if they are not a sex offender. This woman was merely vandalized, but people have gotten assaulted or even killed because vigilantes were going after who they thought was a registrant.  

Robert Moon, who “helps manage the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s sex offender registry” according to this Tallahassee, FL news story, is quoted as saying, “Everybody on the website has committed a felony or they’ve committed a crime in another jurisdiction that would equate to a felony here in Florida.” That’s a lie. There are plenty on the Florida registry