Florida can’t bar felons from registering to vote over fees and fines, court rules

Florida cannot bar felons who served their time from registering to vote simply because they have failed to pay all fines and fees stemming from their cases, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a Tallahassee federal judge’s preliminary injunction that the implementation of Amendment 4 – approved overwhelmingly

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Southern Baptist Convention Kicks Out Church With Registrant Pastor

Ranchland Heights Baptist Church in Midland, which has been pastored by a man required to register as a sex offender because of a conviction 17 years ago, has been ousted by the Southern Baptist Convention. Four years ago, the Church was questioned by the Houston Chronicle about the pastor and a deacon said, “We believe that God can change people,

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Attorneys for Wayside Cross child sex offenders, Kane state’s attorney hold ‘productive’ meeting

Wayside Cross Ministries may not have won its latest battle with the city of Aurora, but at least it came away with a small victory Tuesday after a sit-down by attorneys for a group of child sex offenders living at the mission and Kane County State’s Attorney Joe McMahon. McMahon’s office, which has remained tight-lipped about what the future holds

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UPDATED: Florida man wanted for failure to register as a sex offender threatens to jump off tower

A man wanted by the police for failure to register as a sex offender climbed a Pensacola, FL radio tower threatening to jump. The story was developing at the time it was reported and we don’t have any updates. In Florida, failure to register is a third degree felony carrying a minimum mandatory sentence. Even innocently forgetting to register something

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