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ORLANDO —  A Brevard County principal who was charged with possession of child pornography was granted bond in federal court in downtown Orlando on Wednesday morning. Ricky Sheppard, 59, is fighting back against federal possession of child pornography charges. Elementary school principal Ricky Sheppard accused of child porn possession Investigators say they found thousands of images, videos on his computers

Detectives say sergeant solicited teen for sex acts on work-issued laptop FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – A Broward Sheriff’s Office sergeant has been arrested on child pornography charges. Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel announced the arrest of Sgt. Kreg Costa during a Thursday afternoon news conference. Costa was arrested Thursday on more than two dozen child porn and illicit sexual conduct

Two kidnapping stories made headlines this week. One in Kentucky and one in Florida. In both cases men tried to kidnap teenage girls. Both news reports, put out by independent news agencies, seemed surprised that the perpetrators were not on the sex offender’s registry. Miami’s CBS affiliate wrote, “Investigators don’t know why Bonello went after the girl. He’s not a

Get a cup of coffee and settle back to listen to Catherine Carpenter, JD speak at the 2013 RSOL conference in Los Angeles.  It gives a good overview of how we went from the original “barely-constitutional registry” to today’s “clearly-unconstitutional” status. You will hear her refer to Gail (FAC), Dr Erik Imhoff, and Dr.  Suzanne Kline who presented together at

A July report issued by the US Department of Justice’s SMART office (Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering and Tracking) backed up most of what advocacy groups such as the Florida Action Committee have been saying for years; that the current sex offender management policies largely ignore empirical evidence as to what works and what does not and

In 2007 the Nevada state legislature passed a law to bring it’s state into compliance with the 2006 Adam Walsh Act. In the almost decade that has since followed, several low level offenders remained off the public registry as a lawsuit brought by a couple of dozen of those offenders progressed through the courts. This year, however, the Nevada Supreme