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The Pinellas County Sheriff is touting the success of a diversion program that allows low-level offenses to be diverted to a program that offers community service, treatment and fines to serve as the sanction for certain offenses. However, the program is not open to registered sex offenders (even if the instant offense is not the sex offense). Why? Anyone care

This woman received only 6 years for chasing down and killing a navy service member with her car; he was on a motorcycle. I can’t even appreciate her being upset, she’s losing six years, whereas he lost his life. But, more to the point, she will be free in six or less years and have a chance at a fresh

A 36-year-old St. Johns County man is looking at spending the rest of his life behind bars after Circuit Court Judge Howard Maltz sentenced him to 100 years in prison Wednesday morning. The sentencing came nearly two months after a jury found Jesse Graham Berben guilty on 20 counts of possession of child pornography at the end of a two-day

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) – A Cheektowaga law created more than a decade ago to serve as a tougher version of New York’s sex offender law. Now, it’s being called unconstitutional. Cheektowaga council member Alice Magierski says the local law extended the distance any level sex offender could live from a school or park from 1,000 feet to 1,500 feet. The

Today, an Appellate Court in NY issued an opinion in People v. Diaz holding that an individual cannot be subject to Sex Offender registration for a non-sexual offense committed in another state. In 1989, Frederick Diaz was upset with his 13 year old sister because she threw out his stash of drugs. He was so upset that the then 19

A female teacher in California was sentenced to 180 days (which she will have to serve only half) and will NOT have to register as a sex offender for having a sexual relationship with a 16 year old Student. The story can be found here: http://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/crime/article143230329.html Who thinks that if instead of an attractive female teacher, the perpetrator had been