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SOURCE: US Government SMART Newsletter In 2011, the Supplemental Guidelines for Sex Offender Registration and Notification officially included in SORNA’s standards the obligation that jurisdictions require their registered sex offenders to provide 21 days’ notice of any international travel. However, before International Megan’s Law passed, it was difficult to federally prosecute sex offenders for failing to notify registration officials of

There are two upcoming events in South Florida you should be aware of. We encourage our members in the area to attend and network with others interested in civil liberties and help spread our message. If there is an event in your area that you would like us to promote, please forward the information to [email protected].   VOTE Restoration Event:

SOURCE: Wired For companies like JPay, the business model is simple: Whatever it costs to send a message, prisoners and their families will find a way to pay it. … Prisons are notoriously low-tech places. But urged on by privately owned companies, like JPay, facilities across the country are adding e-messaging, a rudimentary form of email that remains disconnected from

The following letter was sent to Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel. Sheriff Israel’s son, Brett, was accused of committing a sexual assault against another student in his High School. The event took place 4 years ago. Brett has not been charged and an investigation into whether there was a cover-up is pending. Our hope is that the Sheriff might realize

In one Pennsylvania county, more than three times as many people on the registry were charged in 2016 with failing to follow registry requirements than were charged with a new sexual offense In January 2015, Franklin Barrick packed his bags and moved out of his home near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, leaving his wife behind. For most, the end of a marriage

Source: Mother Jones The country’s biggest private prison company may have run afoul of campaign finance law with a donation to Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s campaign for US Senate, a campaign finance watchdog says. GEO Group, which is based in Boca Raton, Florida, operates prisons and immigrant detention centers across the country. The company and its subsidiaries have received $560