Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
The US House of Representatives recently passed a bill that could become law. This bill, referred to as the “International Megan’s Law” will severely impede the ability of registrants to travel internationally. RSOL put out a Position Paper on the issue which raises several valid and important points. It also illustrates how difficult it will become for registrants to travel.
Read moreIn Arcadia, a town of 6,000 east of Sarasota, there’s a facility wrapped in sky-high barbed wire, where no one can choose to get in or out. This isn’t a prison, and its residents aren’t serving a sentence. It’s the Florida Civil Commitment Center, home to 650 men whom the state fears could molest, assault or rape again if released.
Read moreA Florida woman convicted of unlawful sex with her son’s 16-year-old baseball teammate fled north to escape a 30-year-sentence—and the government just granted her asylum.
Read moreThe Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts declared lifetime parole for RSO’s unconstitutional, yesterday. Lifetime parole “constitutes an impermissible delegation to the executive branch of the core judicial function of imposing sentences,” Justice Ralph D. Gants wrote for the majority. “A judicially imposed sentence is final and may not be modified by another branch.’’ In other words; only a judge can
Read moreNews-Press.com featured the following video where a registrant describes being released from prison and dropped off in the woods by his probation officer. http://archive.news-press.com/videonetwork/3137878228001/Homeless-sex-offenders-describes-living-in-the-woods
Read moreSome criminal justice advocates and researchers concur that recent law changes targeting sex offenders are costly to taxpayers and make it harder for ex-convicts to re-enter society and become productive citizens.
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