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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — With the holidays upon us, local law enforcement warns parents: there are more sinister things, than ghost, goblins, and things that go bump in the night. In early 2015, Duval County made changes to its sexual offender ordinance, and the new laws were just in time for Halloween. Former city councilman Warren Jones spearheaded the laws which

In Bradford County, Florida they have taken the idea of notifying their community about the sex offenders in their area to whole new level. The Bradford County Sherriff office have installed large red signs that explicitly state that there is a sexual predator living at this address. Their reasoning behind this is so it makes the sheriff’s job easier so

WOODBRIDGE, Va. – A Woodbridge father showed up to his daughter’s elementary school to surprise her for her birthday. However, for 8-year-old Aniya Williams, it’s a birthday she will remember, but for all the wrong reasons.“I started passing out cupcakes, doing all the meet and greets and then I see three officers come in,” said Aniya’s father, Justin. “I didn’t

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