Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
As the leader of Healing Transitions, a peer-based recovery-oriented service for homeless and uninsured people located in Raleigh, Budnick is left scrambling if someone with a sex offense comes to him for housing. Some of society’s most vulnerable people come to Budnick, asking for help. He has to turn them away due to the location of Healing Transition’s men’s campus
Read moreA violent sex offender from Racine County, Hung N. Tran, 52, has been released from all supervision and is being allowed to live out of state. This comes amid Racine County finding it increasingly difficult to find homes for offenders who have served their criminal sentence — both in part due to community resistance to having offenders placed in certain
Read more(Weekly Update #202) Dear Members and Advocates, Thirty years ago, Los Angeles, California erupted in a series of riots in response to the beating of an unarmed black man by police officers. After nearly two months of frustrated and angry citizens hitting the streets in protest of Police brutality against the minority communities, Rodney King, the victim of the beating
Read moreIn our toxic and brain-optional political climate, certain pundits, politicos and random Twitter dingbats have decided to spend the early days of National Child Abuse Prevention Month shooting the label ‘pedophile’ around like a spitball. It’s outrageous, several steps beyond offensive and utterly indefensible. Though we live in an age when many of the lines you don’t cross have been
Read moreA former Clarendon County, South Carolina deputy has been arrested for taking money from registrants. According to this news report, Sabrina Mellerson is accused of taking money from sex offender registrants. Apparently Sheriff’s Offices in South Carolina are allowed to collect a yearly fee from registrants. Mellerson, decided that she, personally, is allowed to collect the fee from people she
Read moreProtestors make alarming allegations about statewide sex offender treatment program in Littlefield By Elizabeth Fitz LITTLEFIELD, Texas – Protestors gathered in front of the Civil Commitment Facility in Littlefield on Saturday morning to shine a light on the injustices they said are happening within the barbed-wire fences of the former prison. Texas created the Civil Commitment Program in 1999; like
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