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Facebook updated its community standards to allow for users to call for “high-severity violence” against sexual offenders, including death threats. In its ” Do not post” section on its website, Facebook changed its standards in a July update to allow an exception to its “Violence and Incitement” standard for individuals “described as having carried out violent crimes or sexual offenses,

Despite advice from the city attorney, Lake Geneva aldermen voted tonight not to relax an ordinance that virtually bans sex offender from living in the city. City Attorney Dan Draper had urged aldermen to ease a current 2,000-foot buffer for sex offenders living near schools, parks and playgrounds. Draper warned that the ordinance was illegal, overly restrictive, and likely to

What is the point of sending someone to prison – retribution or rehabilitation? Twenty years ago, Norway moved away from a punitive “lock-up” approach and sharply cut reoffending rates. The BBC’s Emma Jane Kirby went to see the system in action, and to meet prison officers trained to serve as mentors and role models for prisoners. READ THE STORY

If you reside in DeBary and are being told you need to move from your home, please contact [email protected] DeBary’s City Council passed an ordinance expanding regulations over registered sex offenders. The ordinance bans registered sex offenders from community pools, water parks, school bus stops, and other private and public areas. The ordinance also increases the distance sex offenders can

Stop Educator Sexual Abuse Misconduct & Exploitation (SESAME) is an organization that describes itself as a national voice for prevention of abuse by educators and other school employees. It has compiled alarming statistics on the incidences of sexual abuse in schools nationwide, reporting that just under 500 educators were arrested in 2015: Of children in 8th through 11th grade, about

On Oct. 12, 2018, Daehaun White walked free, or so he thought. A guard handed him shoelaces and the $19 that had been in his pocket at the time of his booking, along with a letter from his public defender. The lanky 19-year-old had been sitting for almost a month in St. Louis’ Medium Security Institution, a city jail known