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OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. — Nearly a dozen homeless registered sex offenders claim they were dumped in the woods in Osceola County by the Florida Department of Corrections. The DOC denied the claims, but confirmed that half of the registered sex offenders in Osceola County live in the same camp off Old Vineland Road. Since 9 Investigates reported on the homeless

PLEASE NOTE THIS CASE HAS BEEN APPEALED!   Miami-Dade Sex Offender Residency Ordinance Unsuccessfully Challenged by David M. Reutter The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) recently challenged the constitutionality of a Miami-Dade County, Florida ordinance that, according to the organization, forces sex offenders on probation into homelessness by imposing residency restrictions so harsh there is literally no place where they

The FBI recently began open beta testing of eFOIA, a system that puts Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests into a medium more familiar to an ever-increasing segment of the population. This new system allows the public to make online FOIA requests for FBI records and receive the results from a website where they have immediate access to view and

That’s the question posed to the audience of mostly college students by Galen Baughman, a Soros Justice Fellow and the final speaker at the City University of New York TEDx talks at the Borough of Manhattan Community College last week. TEDx talks are known for introducing new speakers with new ideas on everything from tech, to teaching, to society —

Today is the day that those reading this article – especially those that have been affected by the Sex Offender registry and regulations – will find hope and realize that it was all a lie. Everything is built upon a foundation. Some foundations are solid and hold up what is built upon them, while others are a bit more fragile

Palm Beach County government will no longer ask job candidates to disclose their criminal history on their application. The county is joining the national “ban-the-box” initiative, which seeks to prevent felons from being screened out for employment just because of their criminal record. On Friday, the county stopped asking applicants if they had ever been convicted of a felony offense,