News & Updates

Yesterday, in the city of Melbourne, Brevard County, there was a Police Community Relations Meeting. The panel for the meeting was comprised of: Circuit Judge – Judge John D. Galluzzo State Attorney Phil Archer Public Defender Blaise Trettis Brevard County Sheriff Office – Major Vic DeSantis Palm Bay Police Department – Deputy Chief James Rogers Melbourne Police Department – Chief

Rechael Morrison -a city appointed resident ambassador at Dignity Village – is optimistic about the city’s new rules – including allowing sex offenders to reside in the tent city. One of the other future plans – the possibility of a family center at Grace Marketplace located directly next to Dignity Village – which Morrison says is not a good idea

CLEVELAND, Ohio – You might think that all advocates for rape victims would support the practice of forcing sex offenders to publicly register their addresses after their release from prison. But you would be mistaken. Growing numbers of victim advocates and criminal justice researchers are among those who have concluded that sex offender registries are too costly and provide little

Cambridge, MA—RSOL, Inc.—a leading civil rights group advocating on behalf of registered citizens and their families—called today for the immediate repeal of Rhode Island’s newest law designed to segregate registrants, deprive them of their homes and property, and further erode the constitutional rights of American citizens. Citing the poor effectiveness of residency restrictions to promote public safety as being well

A new law in Rhode Island will make sex offenders living beyond 300 feet of a school move to a place at least 1000 feet from a school. They have 30 days to uproot their lives. Guess who thinks this will make children safer? Only the R.I. Brotherhood of Correction Officers, which sponsored the bill. No one else. Not even law

The torture started in 2006. The cities of Miami-Beach and Miami got into a war of sex offenders because Miami Beach’s ordinance drove registrants without anyplace to live over to the mainland. Miami countered by passing their own ordinance to drive them back. The result, sex offenders couldn’t find anyplace to live and were living under the Julia Tuttle Causeway;