News & Updates

We have received numerous reports that FDLE’s system is not updated to accept “internet identifiers” and worse; distinguish between vehicles owned by registrants or by family/friends/roommates. If you register a family members car now through their current system, it will appear publicly along with the vehicle description and License Plate number.    

Yesterday, FDLE sent the OFFICIAL registration update notification, which you can see at the end of this post. Although we have been requesting this information for weeks, FDLE chose to provide it on the very day the laws became effective, leaving our members already non-compliant with some requirements and only 48 hours to scramble to resolve the others. Apparently, this

Laws that restrict where sex offenders can live when they are released from prison leave many homeless, but one south Florida apartment manager is providing housing opportunities by leasing apartments to offenders on liberal terms. “I just believe that everybody deserves a second chance,” said Pamela Eaton, the manager of Fairfield Apartments in south Fort Myers. She indicated her goal

Today, October 1, 2014, several new registration requirements go effect. Although the FDLE, the organization charged with overseeing the enforcement of these requirements, failed to reply to two written requests to advise us of what they are, the DOC has provided us with a copy of the notification of requirements. Two versions; one for those on probation and one for

The following story comes out of Texas, but it underscores a significant problem we have in our registry here. It fails to distinguish the low risk from the high risk. The title to the story is, “Mom Upset Sex Offender Allowed Near Kids in Pee Wee Football League”. Naturally, what mom wouldn’t be upset about a sex offender coaching her

Sex Offender Registration and Notification in the United States: Current Case Law and Issues Published by the US Department of Justice, Office of Sex Offender Monitoring, Apprehension, Registering and Tracking (SMART). The full text can be found here