television station WJXT and News4Jax ‘getting it all wrong’ again on Sex Offenders

Weekly Update #64 Dear Members and Advocates, This week’s update is directed at television station WJXT and their news show News4Jax (@wjxt4)… Shame on you! The backstory: A few days ago, two children went missing in Jacksonville, Florida. Yesterday, before those children were (most importantly) found safe, News4Jax aired a story they titled “30 sex offenders, predators in 2-mile radius

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Guards denied medical care to an accused sex offender.

For hours before he died in a northern Vermont prison this month, Kenneth Johnson struggled to breathe and begged for medical attention, according to a fellow inmate who was with Johnson that night. “He kept banging on the window for the nurse to do something about it — and they didn’t,” said the other inmate, Raymond Gadreault. Johnson, Gadreault and

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Texas professor who studies sex offender policy is targeted by vigilantism for his work

It’s not enough that vigilantes go after people required to register as sex offenders and their families, some are now going after the scholars who do research and write about the topics related to anything sexually taboo. University of Texas professor Thomas K. Hubbard has become the target of protests and threats of violence because of his writings on age

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Texas law firm does HUGE disservice to registrants

A year ago we posted a warning about a lawyer from Texas, Teri Estes-Hightower, who was using the Florida Sex Offender’s registry to solicit people for a “class action” lawsuit in Florida against the registry. While this all sounded great to some who didn’t know better. Those with experience in registration matters and constitutional law saw this as a disaster.

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UPDATED AGAIN: CALL TO ACTION: Correct a FALSE STATISTIC in a Florida Article

News4Jax just posted a story in which their “crime and safety expert” Ken Jefferson (@kenjefferson_) made the FALSE claim that “Statistics have shown over 90% of sexual predators and offenders will reoffend,” That statistic is completely FALSE and inflammatory. The re offense rate of people required to register as sex offenders or sexual predators is lower than almost all other

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SCOTUS denies cert. in homeless case. May benefit transient persons required to register as sex offenders.

The Supreme Court of the United States has refused to consider a 9th Circuit Court decision that, which upheld a decision that  homeless people have a constitutional right to sleep on public property outdoors if no other shelter is available to them. The case is Boise v. Martin, and the ruling of the appellate court was that the city may

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