Oh come on!!! School placed on “lock out” during compliance check.

After a person required to register as a sex offender registered a new address in Nebraska, a local school placed their students on a lockdown preventing them from leaving the building. The sheriff’s department checked the address and discovered it was inside the exclusion zone, the man agreed to immediately leave, end of story. There are two completely absurd things

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New Florida Clemency Law AGAIN carves out persons convicted of a sex offense.

Earlier today the Florida Clemency Board voted to automatically restore most civil rights stripped from felons once they have completed their sentences, including court-ordered financial obligations. Felons who meet the criteria for restoration of rights still won’t have the right to own, possess or use firearms, but they will be able to to serve on a jury and hold public

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New bill by Senator Book seeks to suspend licenses of Physicians arrested for sexual crimes.

Like we didn’t see this one coming… About a month after her children’s pediatrician was accused of a sexual offense, Lauren Book introduced Senate Bill 1934. That bill would immediately suspend the license of a physician charged with a sexual offense. Under current circumstances, a physician’s license would not be suspended until they were actually convicted. In the case of

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WY: Changes in laws allow for retroactive harsher punishment according to state supreme court.

A bad decision out of the state of Wyoming, where the state’s supreme court allowed changes in registration laws to be applied retroactively against a man whose offense occurred more than a decade before the changes. Jeffrey Earl Harrison committed a sexual offense in 1994. He was not required to register, because at the time registration was only required for

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Florida Senate Bills 234 and 932 – Substituting Emotional Animus for Evidence-based laws

Weekly Update #139 Dear Members and Advocates: We have been calling on our members to contact their lawmakers to oppose two bills that are making their way through the Senate this term. SB 932 (Prohibiting a court from granting time-sharing with a minor child to a parent registered as a sexual offender or sexual predator under certain circumstances) and SB

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