Pasco County seeks to amend Sex Offender Ordinance.

Pasco County will hold a public meeting this coming Tuesday to discuss proposed changes to their sex offender ordinance. Anyone interested is strongly encouraged to attend and speak out against this horrible ordinance in general and encourage the County Commissioners to instead apply empirical evidence and studies in formulating their policies instead of the ineffective ordinance currently in place.  

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Member Comment: Voting rights of ex-felons

The following was submitted by a member to the Orlando Sentinel.   The article in today’s edition is right on target.  When a person is convicted of a felony…regardless of its nature…and fulfills the sentence affixed by the legal/justice system…that person becomes an ex-felon and should be restored to full citizenship.  One of this nation’s founding principles was “No taxation

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Catching Pokémon, and sex offenders: Against the frenzy to ban sex offenders from playing the new augmented reality game

The Pokémon Go craze is sweeping the nation and beyond, sending young people scurrying through the streets, phones in hand, frantically seeking these fictional little creatures. It also has politicians scurrying to find heavy-handed answers to trumped-up fears. That’s because it didn’t take long before someone realized that, horror of horrors, with all of these children, teenagers and twentysomethings scampering

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NY Times: Punishment That Doesn’t Fit the Crime

When Matthew Grottalio was 10 years old, he and his older brother initiated a touching “game” with their 8-year-old sister. “None of us knew what we were doing,” he said, and he soon forgot about the episode. But later that year, 1998, his sister’s teacher found out and notified the authorities. Just weeks after Matthew’s 11th birthday, police officers handcuffed

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