Florida Digital Driver’s Licenses – Could this be a good thing for us?

Yesterday, Governor DeSantis signed HB 1313 into law.  This bill brings Florida up to date with modern technology by establishing a “Digital proof of driver license“. The Digital proof of driver license is an electronic credential viewable on an electronic credentialing system. In other words, instead of having to show a plastic card, you will likely be able to show

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CO: Mandatory lifetime juvenile sex offender registration is unconstitutional, Colorado Supreme Court rules

Juveniles cannot be mandated to register as lifelong sex offenders in Colorado if there is no way for offenders to be individually assessed or to later be removed from the registry, the state Supreme Court ruled Monday. “Mandatory lifetime sex offender registration brands juveniles as irredeemably depraved based on acts committed before reaching adulthood,” Justice Monica Márquez wrote. “But a

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Online Event: Confronting the Registry: The History and Consequences of U.S. Sex Offender Laws

Free. Live-streamed on Facebook (https://www.easternstate.org/facebook) and via Zoom webinar. (https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89360366229? pwd=MzNTM3BWZ3psKzUzREtsYnNyRTczQT09) Join us as we take a look at the history and consequences of well intentioned legislation and the human and community impact of sex offender registries. Since 1996, all 50 U.S. states and Washington D.C. require people convicted of sex offenses to be placed on a registry. Over the

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Another Florida Law without Supporting Evidence – Parenting and Time-Sharing of a Minor Child for a Convicted Parent

(Weekly Update #157) Dear Members and Advocates, We’ve all heard the phrase “every parent’s worst nightmare” in the context of a sex offender. It usually conjures the image of an abduction and sexual assault or murder. But for every parent who happens to be required to register as a sex offender, our “parent’s worst nightmare” is that one day, some

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