Florida group sues Seminole County, sheriff over sex-offender rules

An organization that works to reform sex-offender laws in Florida is suing Seminole County and Sheriff Don Eslinger, alleging that a decade-old county ordinance is so restrictive that it prevents registered sex offenders from traveling to a grocery store, eating out at a restaurant or, in some cases, even leaving their homes. According to Seminole’s ordinance, sexual offenders or predators

Read more

TV host John Oliver has become America's social justice warrior

You MUST watch these!     Craig Watts has spent the better part of three decades trying to bring attention to the inequities between major agricultural companies and farmers like himself. It’s a battle that suddenly changed a few months ago. “If you’ve got a problem and you want it fixed, call John Oliver,” he said. “That’s my theory now.”

Read more

LA: Teen accused of recording sex with 15-year-old booked on child pornography charge

A Gretna 17-year-old accused of having sex with a 15-year-old girl and recording the encounter with his cell phone has been arrested and booked with possession of pornography involving juveniles, according to a Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office arrest report. NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune is not identifying the suspect in the case. The teen was also booked with misdemeanor carnal knowledge of

Read more

Federal suit filed against county, probation GPS provider

A Tallahassee lawyer has filed a federal suit claiming GPS monitoring systems used by Leon County pretrial release and probation programs to track individuals are faulty and result in unintended violations. In a March 17 filing in U.S. District Court, criminal defense attorney Josh Zelman claims his client Christopher Jensen was “falsely arrested, falsely imprisoned and maliciously prosecuted” because of

Read more