Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
In a comment on another post someone used the term “Registered Family” and I thought it was very appropriate. We are not just persons required to register, we are families required to register! If you share a home with someone on the registry, the police regularly show up at your doorstep, the car you drive is registered, you cannot decorate
Read moreYesterday, I returned from an invigorating three days – Note… that’s not “three days” so as to qualify as a temporary residence 😉 – in Houston, Texas, where Gail and I represented Florida Action Committee at the National Association for Rational Sex Offense Laws (NARSOL) conference. This was my sixth year attending and each year I return with fresh ideas
Read moreMy name is Chris Pelloski. I am a former cancer doctor and researcher who pleaded guilty to accession with an intent to view child pornography in the Federal Southern Ohio District in 2014. From my perspective, I had a moral obligation to tell my story, in full detail and brutal honesty, once I personally experienced the extent of public misunderstanding
Read moreThere are no homes at 2700 N. Federal Highway in Fort Lauderdale. Although the only buildings standing are a McDonald’s and a Chick-fil-A, 110 people have registered it as an address. All of them are convicted sex offenders. This hotspot for sexual criminals is one of several along Federal Highway in northeast Fort Lauderdale, one of the few slivers in
Read moreThe Dobbs Wire: Liberty stolen. Legislators have created an extraordinary array of harsh laws for individuals convicted of sex offenses. Prison terms are commonplace while twenty states and the federal government go even farther with “civil commitment.” After paying the price, their prison time done and freedom near, some find themselves, instead, held indefinitely in locked facilities that may as
Read moreAt last night’s City Commission meeting, the city of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida voted to remove school bus stops from the list of locations around which persons required to register as sex offenders could live. The current ordinance (which included school bus stops in the exclusion zones) left less than one (1) percent of Ft. Lauderdale compliant for a registrant to
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