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Sex offenders can not be subjected to punishments under newly created laws if they committed their offense and served their time before the legislation was passed, the state Supreme Court ruled in a 4-3 decision Monday. In 1986, George Riley was convicted of aggravated sexual assault on a minor and given a 20-year sentence. About six months after his release

Daytona Beach registrants should be up in arms over this one! A local hospital, Halifax Health, has set up a new system to scan IDs for Sex Offenders. According to this article, “The process will take less than a minute and the system will screen visitors to see if they are on the sexual offender list…Sex offenders will be denied

“Severe Sanctions and Public Scorn.” That’s not how you would categorize signing up for a Price Club Membership, is it? During oral arguments in Smith v. Doe, 538 U.S. 84 (2003). Justice Roberts of the US Supreme court said, “…the affirmative step of filling out one side of one page with the sort of information that you’d — would put

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Two sex offenders who caused an uproar when neighbors found out they were living feet from the community park have moved, but the battle isn’t over; the convicted sex offenders are taking the city of Orlando to court. Channel 9’s Jeff Levkulich was there as residents got an update on the situation from city leaders. David

LAKE MONROE, FLORIDA – September 16, 2015 The Florida Action Committee (FAC) has sued Seminole County and its Sheriff over the County’s proximity ordinance, which prohibits certain registered sexual offenders and predators from traveling through or being present within “exclusion zones” that encompass most of the County. The problem is that the zones are so broad and so vague that

A man, whose conviction dates back to 1999 was successful in getting an order stating that the residency restriction that was passed in 2003 does not apply to him, since the law was passed after his conviction and would constitute an ex-post-facto violation. As a result of the victory, he is now able to live with his mother (or wherever