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If you live in Duval County and need help paying your rent or utility bills, the Salvation Army of Northeast Florida may be able to help. The Salvation Army said that the assistance is available to residents who have received an eviction or disconnection notice or have been unemployed for 90 days.  Household income must not exceed 50% of the

The Hundredx Fundaiser has been extended and it will end at midnight on Sunday August 4th.  We still have time to raise funds to help Justice Transitions help others in need without spending a dime of you own money! It is very simple and every quality opinion that you submit can earn $1.60 for Justice Transitions (JT).  If you are

Originally published at narsol.org   By Atwo Zee, Registered Traveler . . . Not long after I returned to Iowa after the 2024 NARSOL conference in Atlanta, I received an email forwarded by the national NARSOL office.  This message came to them on their main “Contact Us” email address, and whoever sent it was looking specifically for me, “whose story

In Florida, kidnapping or false imprisonment of a minor can land a person on the Florida sex offense registry, even though a sex crime was not committed. The Michigan Supreme Court says that such a placement on the registry is unconstitutional.  It is cruel or unusual punishment, barred by the Michigan Constitution. According to the ACLU of Michigan, there are

Australia has found that research shows that public sex offender registries, which make people convicted of a sex offense visible to the public, are not working—same results found in the U.S.  Go figure! Haley Boxall with Phys.org says, “This is because name-and-shame campaigns stigmatize, ostracize and demonize their targets, effectively ‘othering’ them within the community.  However, community reintegration—where someone becomes

My name is found on the Florida Sexual Offender registry due to a crime I pled guilty to in 1999 (to avoid a humiliating trial).  A plea was accepted, the sex offender registry still in its infancy with my name added later and still remains.    Due to this action, I have suffered cruelly in the following ways:   Though