Miami New Times: Police Now Shuffling Tent City Sex Offenders Around Miami-Dade

Source: Miami New Times In 2009, California artist Scott Gairdner made the “Sex Offender Shuffle,” a viral video parodying Miami-Dade’s treatment of sex offenders. With a catchy beat and ’80s-style cinematography, the four-minute spoof of the 1985 Chicago Bears’ “Super Bowl Shuffle” mocked the way sex offenders are shuffled from one location to another under the guise of public safety. Nine years

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Slow but Positive Movement in Public Opinion on Sex Offense Laws

Dear Members and Advocates, The biggest issue this past week has been the re-settlement of the Miami-Dade encampment. As required by law (and forced under threat of arrest by the Bovo Amendment), within 5 days of eviction, 270 people registered to the tracks have had to find new places to register. Most have settled along 36th/37th Avenue (one street away

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Are you on GPS Monitoring?

We are looking for input from people on GPS Monitoring (Florida Probation). If you are, please tell us: (1) What type of equipment you have (ie: manufacturer and model, if possible), is it one-piece or two? (2) Do you have frequent false alerts? If so, what happens? Your help is appreciated – please reply in comments below. ***NOTE: WE WILL

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Rules aimed at monitoring Florida lobbyist wither on the vine

Miami Herald Editorial Board May 23, 2018 12:40 AM When Florida House Speaker Richard Corcoran convinced the House to pass ethics rules in 2016 that require lobbyist for local governments and other tax-funded entities to disclose their contracts, it was a victory for transparency. Finally, the public would see how much public money their local governments were spending to lobby

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