Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
Weekly Update #244 Dear Members and Advocates, Something stinks in Highlands County, Florida and it’s not the exhaust fumes from the Sebring International Raceway. The stench is coming from the Highlands County Sheriff’s Office’s sex offender unit, where two detectives have been going above and beyond to terrorize people on the registry by coming up with their own set of
Read moreThe Gainesville City Commission passed an amendment Tuesday that allows people convicted of sexual offenses involving children under age 16 to live closer to schools, day care centers and parks, reducing the prohibited radius from 2,500 feet to 1,000 feet. The amendment also establishes a cut-off date that was previously not recognized by the City of Gainesville, meaning people convicted
Read moreIt was recently brought to our attention that the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office is requiring personal information from persons required to register who intended to travel. Specifically the means of travel (including copies of flight information) for domestic travel and purpose of travel for domestic and international travel. If you are not on probation, you are not required to request
Read moreWhat use is the Sex Offender Registry when it did absolutely nothing to prevent sex offending from taking place right under it’s nose? We’re talking about a former Cobb County (Georgia) Deputy Sheriff assigned to the agency’s Sex Offender Unit, that was sentenced to federal prison for distributing child pornography! According to a press release from the U.S. Government, ”
Read moreInternational Megan’s Law to Prevent Child Exploitation and Other Sexual Crimes Through Advanced Notification of Traveling Sex Offenders, known as IML, requires the State Department to include a unique identifier in the passports of registered sex offenders covered under the law based on their conviction for a sex offense against a minor. When an offender travels internationally, this identifier enables
Read moreTampa City Council Members will study the findings of a report from the Tampa Police Department on Thursday about a high concentration of sex offenders living in a one-block stretch of Nebraska Avenue in the city’s V.M. Ybor neighborhood. Tampa police officials say there are now 100 sex offenders living in V.M. Ybor, 76 of them with distance restrictions to
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