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A long time advocate, Trey Gennette, has organized a group of individuals who were caught up in Florida Sex Offender Stings. For those who don’t know of Trey and his work; Trey began communicating with an adult he met through an adult dating site… you know how the story ends… The twist in Trey’s case is that he didn’t take

Sex offenders can not be subjected to punishments under newly created laws if they committed their offense and served their time before the legislation was passed, the state Supreme Court ruled in a 4-3 decision Monday. In 1986, George Riley was convicted of aggravated sexual assault on a minor and given a 20-year sentence. About six months after his release

The Indiana Appeals Court ruled that a man convicted of a 1993 sex offense in Florida was not required to register in Indiana because the Indiana registration law came into effect in 1994 and could not be applied retroactively. Because the individual’s Florida crimes and convictions predated the 1994 enactment of Indiana’s Sex Offender Registry Act, he is not required

The Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA) just issued a report on the effectiveness of residency restrictions as tools for sex offender management. The entire report can be read here, but below are some of the findings: Residency restrictions create more problems than they solve, including homelessness, transience and disproportionate clustering of offenders. Residency restrictions create housing instability.

Tarpon Springs Sylvester Johnson, 61, was charged with stabbing his neighbor, Bill Casey, 75, at their Tarpon Springs mobile home park. Casey, a Registered Sex Offender was brutally murdered in his home. Both were residents at the Palace Mobile Home Park at 2500 54th Ave. N., where over 125 sex offenders live. Blood stains and the suspect’s bloody fingerprint were

Along southern Florida’s Muck City Road, southeast of the state’s massive Lake Okeechobee and hidden among hundreds of acres of sugar cane, sits Miracle Village, pop: approximately 150. For decades, its tiny one-story residences housed migrants who worked the nearby sugar fields. Today, they house migrants of a different sort. Most of its residents are convicted sex offenders. Sofia Valiente,