Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
In an Apple Valley News Now Investigates exclusive, anchor and reporter, Wendi Redman, interviews Lydie Vieria, a real estate agent and Isabel Valle, a mortgage officer, on their decision to purchase a home and rent it out for LRA housing for Level III violent sex offenders in Kennewick. Here is last night’s town hall meeting:
Read moreThe Greene County state’s attorney said social media comments prompted him to make “a statement of reason” about a sex offender’s sentencing. State’s Attorney Craig Grummel said he doesn’t use Facebook in his free time, but people were sending him screenshots of the comments section. “Everyone obviously has their right to free speech, but some of those (comments) were inciting
Read moreMissouri State Rep. Scott Cupps (District 158) has filed a bill for the current legislative session that would allow courts to sentence ‘certain sex offenders’ to be surgically castrated. The McDonald and Barry County Representative’s bill says, if passed, the procedure would be done by a licensed physician from the Department of Corrections. As of now, the bill, HB 1687,
Read moreThey were “investigating sex offenders”. That was the excuse DHS agents gave for pulling a U.S. Citizen out of his home wearing only his boxer shorts and Crocs. Wrapped in a blanket in 12 degree weather, a 56 year old naturalized U.S. citizen from Laos was pulled from his house and taken into DHS custody to be fingerprinted and photographed.
Read moreA former Republican lawmaker in South Carolina has been sentenced to 17 1/2 years in prison for sending videos of children being sexually abused on social media. He was also found with video of himself abusing underage women overseas, but the women could not be located. RJ May resigned last year before pleading guilty to distributing the child sex abuse
Read moreSince 2017 Joe Fields has operated Joe’s Place in Walla Walla, where as many as 9 registered mostly low-level sex offenders are voluntarily housed. That facility began just after creation of the state’s STAR Program or Succesful Transition and Re-Entry Program. Now, Kennewick Police and 8th. District Legislators have released information the Fields has applied for and purchased a home in
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