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In what is described as a “massive” five-day, dozen-agency online sting operation, the media highlights only 13 arrests. The “massive” operation, called “Operation Twelve Parsecs”, involved a dozen local, state, and federal agencies, including; the FDLE, Florida Highway Patrol, Florida Department of Agriculture, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), the United States Marshals Service, Escambia County Sheriff’s

Just one day after we posted “Why Didn’t the Registry Save Them?” comes a story out of Orlando that reads like déjà vu. A substitute teacher at Howard Middle School was arrested for a sexual act in the classroom. According to the report, the staffing agency that hired him ran his background through the National Sex Offender Registry and the

If the sex offender registry were really the public-safety panacea it’s billed as, how do we explain incidents like these recent headline stories? An agent from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was found to have taken up-skirt photos of a flight attendant mid-air. And a coach at a private Christian academy in Broward County was arrested for molesting students while

In parts of the United Kingdom, authorities and retailers are experimenting with a high-tech deterrent aimed at curbing repeat shoplifters: electronic tags that trigger alarms when known shoplifters enter stores or areas from which they are banned. The system relies on geofencing technology and detection devices that alert police or store staff the moment a tagged individual crosses into a