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By Jeff Borg For their valuable contributions to civil liberties, the Greater Miami Chapter honored reporter Carol Marbin Miller, advocacy group Florida Action Committee, and civil-rights attorney H.T. Smith during our annual Bill of Rights Reception Friday, 24 October 2014. Gabriele Fiorentino hosted us in her beautiful South Miami home, even though she was obliged to attend a conflicting event

By Charles Rabin [email protected]   Sex offenders gather in the Shorecrest area off 79th Street in 2012. They have since had to move because a park opened nearby.Walt Michot/Miami Herald Staff Story Comments For five years, Miami-Dade County’s sex offender law has sparked national headlines, as homeless parolees have been forced to move from street corners to parking lots because

Listen to the Story All Things Considered Download This encampment under the Julia Tuttle Causeway in Miami, shown in 2008, was cleared out by authorities in 2009. It was home to sex offenders who were unable to find places where they were permitted to live under Miami-Dade County’s strict residency law. Although this makeshift community was broken up, homeless sex

A rule meant to protect Florida children from sex crimes could actually be putting kids in danger, according to a complaint filed Thursday by the American Civil Liberties Union. The 2010 Miami-Dade County ordinance restricts people convicted of certain sex crimes from living within 2,500 feet of a school, severely limiting the supply of housing available to them. In recent

The following post was submitted on CaliforniaRSOL’s site:     First, I would like to thank everyone for their informative posts regarding the denial of entry of ports of entry. I was convicted of a lewd offense (Indecent Solicitation of a Child; Felony) in July 2003. The offense involved talking about having sex with a person who portrayed to be

Below is an article from today’s Daytona Beach News Journal. The article concludes, “Sgt. Kurt Schoeps, supervisor of the Volusia County sex crimes and “Internet Crimes Against Children” units, said the “Romeo and Juliet” law “is not a consideration when we are investigating.” “It is illegal for a 15- to 17-year-old (to have sex),”” How many reading this article have