Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
A Secret Service officer assigned to the White House was sentenced to 20 years in prison Thursday for sexting with minors and sending several underage girls sexually explicit images. Lee Robert Moore, of Church Hill, Maryland, must also register as a sex offender and will be on supervised release for the remainder of his life, the Justice Department announced. Moore,
Read moreThis story out of Texas, reports that a 14-year-old junior high student is facing the possibility of life as a registered sex offender after being arrested for having sex with his 12-year-old girlfriend. He’s a seventh grader, she’s a sixth grader. They are boyfriend-girlfriend. The sex was consensual. The State of Texas does have a “Romeo and Juliet” exemption, but
Read moreIt’s a new law that’s causing people to question whether they are hearing it correctly or whether it’s “fake news” or not. Missouri passed a law that’s putting all sex offenders on GPS for life. Even those whose sentences don’t order it. Clearly they are not applying it retroactively, right? WRONG! It’s being applied to offenses that took place on
Read moreThe new price is a lifetime ankle bracelet or get hit with a felony: For those who thought they had “paid the price” for their wrongdoing – Missouri just tore up the deal. Now some with sex offense records are learning they must wear and pay for (current price $30/month) GPS ‘ankle bracelets’ for *life* — under threat of felony
Read moreWeekly Update 2017-05-16 Dear Members and Advocates, In 2003, the Sex Offender Registry was determined by the Supreme Court of the United States, in Smith v. Doe, to be “non-punitive”. That means it’s not punishment and has further been described to be “civil” and “remedial”. But where else can you find sanctions for violating a civil statute so severe? Generally,
Read morePALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. – “Ok cool, can we make love in the shower?” “Can we use cooking oil for lube? I heard that works too.” “What happens is up to us, we own our own destiny.” Real messages, sent from middle aged men in Okeechobee and St. Lucie County to police officers posing as 15- year-old girls. The two
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