11th Cir. Revives Sexual Predators' Housing Claim

(CN) — The 11th Circuit on Monday revived two sexual offenders’ challenges to residency restrictions in Miami-Dade County. In 2005, the county adopted the Lauren Book Child Safety Ordinance, which restricts sexual offenders and sexual predators from establishing temporary or permanent residence in areas where children regularly congregate, such as schools, parks and child care facilities. Three Doe sexual offenders

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Orlando Sentinel: I'm an ex-sex offender. Florida should use fact, not emotion, to write laws.

Today, Captain Bob Munsey, who is a contributor to the Orlando Sentinel and happens to be a registered citizen, had an Opinion piece featured in the Sentinel (article appears below). Captain Munsey enlisted in the Naval Air Reserve in 1962 and received a presidential appointment to the US Naval Academy from President Kennedy (one of only one hundred nationwide). He

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Reporting Internet Identifiers

We’ve received a tremendous amount of member inquiries regarding the new Internet Identifier requirements that go into effect Saturday. There was a hearing on a Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order enjoining the Internet Identifier provisions of the Sex Offender Registration Law. The Motion was heard and the Judge will hopefully be rendering an opinion soon. Until an order has

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Whatever Happened to Jose "Pepe" Diaz's DUI?

It’s been a while without any follow-up in the news about Commissioner Diaz’s DUI arrest, so we thought we would check. Turns out… NO SURPRISE… he was acquitted. Proving, yet again, that if you’re politically connected you can pretty much get away with anything, including endangering others. As you’d also expect, the May acquittal didn’t make many headlines. Apparently despite

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