Florida’s Civil Commitment Center Run by Geo Group is For-Profit

That’s correct, the Florida Civil Commitment Center located in Arcadia, Florida is run by Geo Group, Inc./Correct Care Solutions, a for-profit private corporation. This article in Business Insider pointed out the conflict of interest of having a civil commitment center being run by a private, for profit company. Unlike prisons, from which over 90% of those incarcerated are eventually released,

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Internet Identifiers – What the California Courts Found and What it Means to Florida

In 2012, the state of California added a provision to their Sex Offender registration requirements that provided: sex offenders register “any and all Internet identifiers” within 24 hours of their use. The change, which was contained in California’s Proposition 35, was part of the Human Trafficking Statute and the requirement was very similar to the one that went into effect

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California Can’t Enforce Online Tracking of Sex Offenders

California can’t enforce a law to combat sex trafficking because it tramples on free speech rights of sex offenders by requiring them to report online activities, such as their Twitter, e-mail and chatroom accounts, a U.S. appeals court ruled. The San Francisco-based court today upheld a judge’s decision to block enforcement of a voter-approved law that was backed by former

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Tampa: 8 On Your Side discovers incorrect, missing sex offender data

The following story was reported by Tampa’s WFLA. Apparently the City’s Police Department Website had inaccurate locations for sex offenders. One showed a registered offender living in downtown Tampa, while they were actually in South Carolina… Hmmm… what about the FDLE’s site which shows people on their registry who are no longer in the State, deported or even deceased???? ____________________

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MUST SEE: Does the Sex Offender Registry Protect Children?

Of the more than 8,000 people listed on Maryland’s sex offender registry, the vast majority have never been convicted of touching a child or assaulted another person. Instead, the registry lists those who have urinated in public or engaged in prostitution. Critics insist the registry has lost its purpose and is doing little to protect our children. At the dead-end

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