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Maybe someone should call WFTV to complain about the residency restrictions that leave these people with noplace to live other than a Walmart parking lot…. ____ Walmart‘s the place you go for $12 jeans or the latest, store-exclusive Oreo flavor, but recently, the big box store’s been in headlines for a different reason: At least 16 registered sex offenders list

We have been bombarded with questions and concerns about the new internet identifier law that was just put into effect and the email notification circulated by the FDLE today. Please be assured that there are very competent attorneys working on this issue. FAC has sent a letter to the FDLE this morning, which can be found here: https://floridaactioncommittee.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Internet-Identifier-Inquiry2.pdf Continue to

After years of panicked and excessively punitive lawmaking against sex offenders, cooler heads are beginning to prevail. The U.S. Supreme Court, for example, last week struck down a North Carolina law that effectively banned registered sex offenders from using any social media that is also accessible by children. Lester Packingham did indeed commit a sex crime: He pleaded guilty in

Broward State Sen. Lauren Book voted “yes” last month to approve a state appropriations bill that included $1.5 million for Lauren’s Kids, the nonprofit she founded and leads as its $135,000-a-year chief executive officer. A gaping loophole in Florida Senate ethics rules allowed Book to cast her vote despite her apparent conflict of interest. The same loophole also meant she

Florida House Bill 699, which “[r]evises definition of term “Internet identifier”; defines “social Internet communication”; requires sexual predators & sexual offenders to register each Internet identifier’s corresponding website homepage or application software name with FDLE through sheriff’s office; requires sexual predators & sexual offenders to report any change to certain information after initial in-person registration in specified manner.” was approved

Men in central Iowa and beyond have become the latest victims in a sexting extortion scam, according to the Iowa Department of Public Safety. The scam starts by an alleged woman contacting a man through an online dating app or website. Within days, the woman says they should start texting. The texting then turns sexual and includes the exchange of