Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
Post 02/23/2023 Dear Members and Advocates: I am yet to meet a person that has not experienced anxiety at some point in their life. But for many of us, the anxiety seems constant….weekly, daily, even hourly for some. We need to be reminded that anxiety solves nothing, and only brings on negativity that drains us mentally, emotionally and physically. The
Read moreA child has gone missing in Hernando County, Florida, after the mother fell asleep. Sheriff Nienhuis said that his deputies visited “sex offenders” in the area and did not find any sign of the child. Law enforcement never does, but for some reason they feel this makes their efforts look good in the eye of the public. This Sheriff Nienhuis
Read moreWhile we are called the United States of America, when it comes to the voting rights of people who have been incarcerated, we are anything but united. Florida Governor DeSantis, along with funding from the legislature, created Florida’s new Office of Election Crimes and Integrity, while 21 other states automatically restore voting rights after release from prison. Washington state passed
Read moreAccording to thecrimereport.org, Aya Gruber, a law professor at the University of Colorado, asks readers to take a second look at how we treat sex crimes. Gruber feels that “treating sex crimes differently than other crimes is not natural or neutral but rather has a political history that should be examined.” “I’m kind of saying to people, you think that
Read moreIn “A Report on the High Cost of Sex Offender Incarceration” by Elizabeth J. Letourneau and Travis W. M Roberts, a research paper published with their colleagues at the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the “focus was on the cost of incarcerating adults convicted of sex crimes against children in the United States.” Their study found that the
Read moreAccording to Reuters, a class action lawsuit has been filed against Amazon.com Inc and a background check provider, Accurate Background Inc, claiming they illegally used a California sex offender website to conduct background checks on job applicants. “Megan’s Law prohibits employers from denying jobs to applicants because their names appear on the website unless they do so to protect a
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