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FORT LAUDERDALE — A Broward County Sheriff’s deputy who was arrested on more than two dozen child porn charges died Wednesday night after shooting himself, according to the sheriff’s office. Sgt. Kreg Costa, 42, was rushed to a Broward County Medical Center on Wednesday after suffering a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at 11:27 p.m., according to the

In a 24 page order that was issued Friday, the Judge in our Seminole County proximity ordinance challenge DENIED Seminole County and their Sheriff’s Motion to Dismiss our lawsuit! The lawsuit, in which Florida Action Committee is plaintiff, was brought by the Florida Institutional Legal Services Project of Florida Legal Services on behalf of our organization and the registered citizens

This weekend, Netflix’s series, ‘Orange is the New Black’ began and for those of you who didn’t spend the weekend binge-watching, I’ll share with you a couple of highlights that relate to registered citizens. First, if you have been in solitary and without any connection to the outside world for the past few years, the series is about life inside

FAC was fortunate to be able to send a board member to the National Seminar on Federal Sentencing. The seminar was an opportunity for criminal defense attorneys, judges and other stakeholders to get together and chime in on the state of federal sentences. Below are the meeting notes from FAC’s attendance at the meeting. Thanks to Barb M. for preparing

“His harshest punishment is a lifetime on the sex offender registry” Wait a minute… did someone say the sex offender registry is “the harshest punishment”? Yes, someone did! San Francisco Gate writer Debra Saunders said so in an opinion piece on why Brock Turner, the Stanford University student only got three years for sexually assaulting another student. She opined, that

June 7 — Sa-id Abdullah, 59, doesn’t deny that he committed a low-level sex offense when he was addicted to drugs in 1987. Yet when he pled guilty in 1991 in connection with an acrimonious divorce proceeding, he said he never envisioned the charge would brand him for almost 30 years. Six months away from completing his five years of