Let’s educate ActionNewsJax about the cause for transient registrants

ActionNewsJax, just ran a story titled, “Homeless sex offenders become growing Florida problem”. Their story (which can be seen below) implies that registrants are somehow intentionally registering themselves as transient in order to evade detection, but that is absolutely NOT the case! The growing number of transient registrants is the unintended consequence of Sex Offender Residency Restrictions (SORRs) enacted in

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Lets support City Walk!

I think the video below speaks for itself, but here are the words of one of their supporters: Today the city sent a (city employee? Plain clothes cop? Process server?) to serve citywalk for continuing to operate. It is beyond disgusting that the city continues to fight the only open shelter. Contrary to what John Dailey and company would have

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MyLife.com Faces Class Action for Falsely Implying Man Was a Sex Offender

A website that offers to show you someone’s “reputation” and criminal history for a fee must face class action claims, after it allegedly suggested a Minnesota man was a sex offender when he only has traffic tickets. In a Tuesday ruling, Minnesota federal Judge Susan Nelson rejected MyLife.com’s motion to dismiss Plaintiff Brion Finlay’s proposed class action against the public

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Man dies of COVID in ICE custody held for a registration violation.

In 1985, at age 19, Martin Vargas Arellano was convicted of sexual abuse of a minor under 14. The victim, according to his attorney, Margaret Hellerstein, was his stepsister, and the relationship was consensual. In 1993, Vargas was convicted of domestic violence, but has had no other convictions for violent crimes since then. Vargas was arrested in April 2019 for

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