Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
Weekly Update 2018-02-06Florida Sex Offender News Weekly Update 2018-02-06 Dear Members and Advocates, In last week’s update, we described a “tug of war” between the legislative and judicial branches of our government. We seem to find relief in the courts, but the legislators keep loading up horrible bills. Well, last week, Federal Judge Mark Walker of the US District Court
Read moreThe Florida Action Committee sent the following letter to the Fair Elections Legal Network, who litigated the case of Hand v. Scott, requesting sex offenders and murderers not be sacrificed in the brief containing proposed solutions to the felon voting case. Letter To Fair Elections Legal Network 02052018
Read moreNews on Sex Offender Registries HARRISBURG — About 150 people in Philadelphia are in state prison and 150 more are on probation or parole for neglecting to fill out address-change notifications or missing a required reporting date — all failures to comply with a sex-offender-registration law the state Supreme Court found unconstitutional last July. Now, the fates of those people —
Read moreAt the next Soho Forum/Reason debate, on Monday, February 12, 2018, the question of whether sex offender registries are effective or do more harm than good will be debated. Representing the argument that sex offender registries should be abolished, is Emily Horowitz, professor and chair of the sociology and criminal justice department at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, New York,
Read moreOn April 14, 2014, A national coalition of members of CURE, CURE-SORT, FAC, USA Fair and WAR members joined together to ask Florida legislators, “Why are the many children and families of former offenders being placed in danger from missed opportunities of effective legislation?” “Are the children of citizens on the sex offender registry less valuable to law makers?” Nearly
Read moreSalon.com posted a story to their site today, titled, “How to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse“, which provides empirical evidence to actually help parents prevent child sexual abuse through understanding the realities of sexual abuse and not allowing the “feel good” yet ineffective laws lure them into a false sense of security: Here are some of the facts they share: Only
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