Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
Weekly update for January 27, 2026. This is recording number 351 Dear Members and Advocates, This week in Minnesota, the national spotlight is shining on a series of controversial shootings by federal immigration agents. Last week’s death of ICU nurse Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old VA hospital employee, ignited conflict and controversy. While witnesses contest the administration’s account (and there is
Read moreSource: ACSOL A new lawsuit has been sent to Fresno County Superior Court challenging an ordinance adopted by the Fresno County Board of Supervisors. That ordinance would significantly limit housing options for persons required to register who reside in that county. The ordinance will become effective on February 5. The ordinance was adopted after two public hearings conducted by the
Read moreIn an Apple Valley News Now Investigates exclusive, anchor and reporter, Wendi Redman, interviews Lydie Vieria, a real estate agent and Isabel Valle, a mortgage officer, on their decision to purchase a home and rent it out for LRA housing for Level III violent sex offenders in Kennewick. Here is last night’s town hall meeting:
Read moreA proposed class of convicted sex offenders failed to meet the high bar required for broad injunctive relief when it made a facial challenge to a Kentucky law that bans their anonymous use of social media, according to a ruling Monday from the Sixth Circuit. A panel of the appeals court vacated a preliminary injunction granted by U.S. District Judge
Read moreThe Greene County state’s attorney said social media comments prompted him to make “a statement of reason” about a sex offender’s sentencing. State’s Attorney Craig Grummel said he doesn’t use Facebook in his free time, but people were sending him screenshots of the comments section. “Everyone obviously has their right to free speech, but some of those (comments) were inciting
Read moreHe was “a criminal illegal alien and convicted child sex predator.” That was the excuse from Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin, after an autopsy report came out showing that an immigration detainee’s cause of death was homicide. True, records show that the man was convicted in 2003 of a sexual offense for which he was sentenced to one
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