Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
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
Read moreToday, 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
Read moreThe 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
Read moreSex 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
Read moreSeveral new laws take effect Wednesday, October 1, 2014. These include (but certainly are not limited to) the following requirements: – All “internet identifiers” must be reported to FDLE – All cars in the household (including cars you don’t own) must be registered “Internet Identifiers” must be reported to FDLE before use and vehicles must be reported within48 hours. For
Read moreEverybody knows that the rich can buy more “justice” than the rest of us. Get over it, right? That would be easier if Palm Beach County residents didn’t keep having our noses rubbed in it. Sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyers last week got a federal judge to agree that the public should not be able to learn full details of
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