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Under the Florida Office of Executive Clemency, an ex-offender who has “completed all sentences imposed and all conditions of supervision have expired or been completed, for a period of no less than 8 years” may apply for authority to own, possess or use a firearm. In addition to waiting 8 years, “[y]ou may not have any outstanding detainers or pending

The Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws (ACSOL), a national organization based in California, has put together some information on international travel for persons required to register as well as a form to gather information from those who have traveled, in order to disseminate travel information to others. The information and form can be found here: https://all4consolaws.org/2019/04/international-travel-2019/ The organization, led

The Fort Meyers, FL Police Department is facing a lawsuit, as two people arrested by them fight back against misconduct involving their arrests. The two are among two dozen who recently had charges against them dropped after the department got caught using using a compromised informant and very sketchy tactics to arrest them. One of the most interesting (we can’t

On Friday, in Florida’s Fifth District Court of Appeals, ruled that charging a criminal defendant with separate counts for each image did not violate the constitutional prohibition of being “twice put in jeopardy” for “the same offense.” In Taylor v. State the defendant was charged with over fifty different counts for over 50 different images. Each count identifying a separate

Child protection advocate and independent Senate candidate Hetty Johnston says the $7.8 million announced in the federal budget this week for a National Child Sex Offenders Register is a “waste of money”. The proposed register would allow people to see the names, known aliases, images and other personal information of known paedophiles living in the community, along with their general

There is something wrong with the justice system when a female teacher gets probation and is only barred from teaching for two years. Had the teacher been male, I’ll bet he would have gotten 20 years for each victim. Below is the story from USA Today: After pleading guilty to having sex with three underage teenagers and sending lewd messages, a