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Martin County commissioners Tuesday will consider expanding the distance registered sex offenders in the county have to live from playgrounds, schools and day care centers. Current registered sex offenders living in the county would be grandfathered into the new rule, if it is approved. Sheriff William Snyder is asking the county to change the requirement from 1,000 feet to 2,500

In December 2020 I moved out of Florida to another state. At that time, I went to the sheriff’s office to notify them I was moving. They changed my registry, at that time, to show I had left the state. Fast forward to last month (June 2022): For the heck of it, I decided to look myself up on the

In 2006, Congress passed the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA), which requires states to keep registries for those convicted of sex offenses. SORNA also makes it a federal crime for an offender to fail to register with his state. But Congress did not want to wade into the messy details of what constitutes a “sex offense,” or what

At a public meeting in Joliet, residents stood up and spoke out against an apartment building that houses sex offenders in a city neighborhood — with one resident lamenting that she wouldn’t let children play outside unless she was on her lunch break, according to a video taken by an attendee. Other residents, according to accounts of some at the

This is a MUST READ and MUST SHARE article from Emily Horowitz. Much thanks to Emily for calling out many of the atrocities taking place here in Florida. . There is a growing consensus that our approach to punishment in the criminal legal system creates more harm rather than reduce it. Yet we summarily exclude those with sex offenses from

Two New Jersey registrants have filed a lawsuit seeking to declare the ban on sex offense parolees from accessing social media and adult pornography. The restrictions, they argue, violate their First Amendment rights under Supreme Court precedent in Packingham and Miller. A copy of the complaint can be read here: loniewski-v-parole-board