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The arm of the law stretches across the world. After nine years, a sex offender is being detained at Brevard County Jail (FL) for failing to report to the county’s Sex Offender Registration Tracking Unit back in 2005-2006 because he moved out of the country to Taiwan.   Since his disappearance in 2005, Steven Strack has been residing in Asia

Judges rule that California’s civil commitment law could result in a “flagrant” violation of the suspect’s human rights. Roger Alan Giese was out on bond and preparing to stand trial in California when he vanished. It was March 2007—about three years after he was charged in connection with the sexual abuse of a young boy he had met through his

The need for criminal justice reform has gotten a lot of attention recently, but there’s one aspect that rarely enters the conversation — sex offender registries. Online records of people convicted of sexual crimes are intended to keep everyone, especially children, safe from sexual predators — the words “sex offender,” after all, illicit the image of a violent rapist or

Comparatively speaking, the United States is responsible for the creation of some of the harshest laws aimed at reducing recidivism among sex offenders. Other countries such as Argentina, Australia, France and Germany do not impose a public registry website or public notification system. However, there is in fact a registry created for each of these countries. The difference between the

News4Jax reports on news in Jacksonville. On their website you can find sections dedicated to the weather, sports, health, politics and maybe even you. That’s right. News4Jax has a page on their website dedicated to publicly outing and shaming registered sex offenders in their community.   One hundred and seventy three pages, each showing twelve offenders are displayed in this

he Soros Justice Fellowships fund outstanding individuals to undertake projects that advance reform, spur debate, and catalyze change on a range of issues facing the U.S. criminal justice system. The Fellowships Program is part of a larger effort within the Open Society Foundations’ Justice Fund to reduce the destructive impact of current criminal justice policies on the lives of individuals,