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An appeals court has ruled the public cannot be excluded from a courtroom when a judge is considering whether a sex offender should be committed indefinitely after his prison sentence has expired. The unanimous ruling this week by three judges on the Fourth District Court of Appeals upholds a Broward County circuit judge who, in January, ruled NBC 6 was

A reporter from Minnesota Public Radio is seeking interviewees for her radio show. Below is her message and contact information:   My name is Natalie Jablonski, and I’m a producer at Minnesota Public Radio. I’m doing some research into the history of sex offender laws and how they impact registrants and their families. I’m looking for people who might be

Massachusetts state representative Paul Heroux has written a couple stories exposing the TRUTH about sex offender registries. He is one of very few (very, very, very few) politicians with the courage and fortitude to be honest about the topic. If anyone wants to write him a thank you email, his address is below the following article that appeared in Huffington

DADE CITY — Sixth Judicial Circuit Court Judge Linda Babb signed a protective order this week that prevents the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office “from further harassment” of a registered sex predator living in Pasco County. The protective order stems from a lawsuit filed in October against Pasco County by Tampa attorney Patrick Leduc. Leduc maintains the residency requirements outlined in

Plantation resident Lauren Book, 31, has raised about $1.3 million for her state senate campaign, though she’s running unopposed. Her charity was also awarded a million dollars by the state legislature this session. Book is the daughter of powerful Florida lobbyist Ron Book, and after suffering horrific abuse by a nanny in her teen years, she founded Lauren’s Kids, which raises

TALLAHASSEE Carlos Manuel Delgado was released from Columbia Correctional Institution in Lake City on Wednesday afternoon — 13 years, 4 months and 24 days before the end of his sentence. Or, from the perspective of Republican Gov. Rick Scott and members of the Florida Cabinet: Delgado spent 11 years, 2 months and 17 days in prison because of what they