Student Sexual Assaults

As an interesting and coincidental follow up to a post of ours from last week, we wanted to mention that the Washington Post, yesterday, ran a story called, “Student Sex Assaults and How They Vary by State” which gave interesting statistics of elementary and secondary school students who report sexual assaults at schools. According to the story; in Florida “[s]chools

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FAC Submits Public Records Requests to FDLE and FDE

The Florida Action Committee has submitted Public Records Requests, pursuant to Ch. 119 Sec. 1 of the Florida Statutes and the Florida Constitution to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Florida Department of Educations. We submitted these requests to find out the number of registered sexual offenders or sexual predators who have been arrested, charged with or convicted

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Legislative Updates on Florida’s Sex Offender Laws

Weekly Update 2017-04-27 Dear Members and Advocates, This week the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals granted the homeless registrants another round of relief in denying Miami-Dade County’s request for a rehearing. The Order, which came out last week, offered little more than what we were hoping for; the words ‘Denied’, which means our challenge to the Miami-Dade County residency restriction

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Untouchable: Everyone needs to see this film.

As David Feige’s documentary, Untouchable, continues to make it’s way through the Film Festival circuit, it’s important that we offer this film as much exposure as possible. The documentary, which is described in this review as, aiming to “recognize the many shades of sex crimes and seeks a better system for dealing with offenders at all levels.” and highlights that

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Royal Caribbean checks passenger manifests against FBI

According to the following article, Royal Caribbean, Celebrity and another cruise line check their passenger manifests against the Sex Offender registry and deny access to registrants. http://www.travelagentcentral.com/cruises/child-safety-at-sea-freed-and-stuart-talk-about-policies-to-protect-kids So murderers, those who commit domestic violence and drug dealers are welcome aboard, but anyone painted with the broad-brush is banned.

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