Registering Internet Identifiers – Revised

Florida Statute 943.0435(4)(e)1 requires all registered offenders to register email addresses and internet identifiers with their local jurisdiction within 48 hours of initial use.  The internet identifiers are your username (moniker, designation, screen name, or other name used for self-identification)  and the software, website, or app that are being used.    Due to the vagueness of the requirement relative to

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Thirty-five years in prison for a wrongful conviction

There is a growing number of wrongful convictions for sex offenses that keep surfacing throughout the country.  This is what happens when no corroborating evidence is required:  it is he-said-she-said.   This most recent case was in Michigan, but Florida has had its share of wrongful convictions for a sex offense.  For almost a decade now, some Florida attorneys, judges, and

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Wisconsin’s lifetime GPS monitoring challenged

This post was written by people within NARSOL and was first published at NARSOL.org.   NARSOL recently released copies of two expert reports filed last week in Antrim v. Carr, 19-cv-396 (Eastern District of Wisconsin).     According to NARSOL, “The case challenges Wisconsin’s statutory scheme requiring that certain individuals convicted of sexual offenses be forced to wear a GPS monitoring

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State judge questions piling on sex offenses, just because

News abounds of cases where individuals charged with specific criminal activity also see efforts to attach a sex offense charge and regulate the individual through a state run SORNA regime.     In People v. Brown in the state of New York, a defendant was convicted of robbing his aunt in front of his 10 year old niece.  The “unlawful imprisonment”

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