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“Severe Sanctions and Public Scorn.” That’s not how you would categorize signing up for a Price Club Membership, is it? During oral arguments in Smith v. Doe, 538 U.S. 84 (2003). Justice Roberts of the US Supreme court said, “…the affirmative step of filling out one side of one page with the sort of information that you’d — would put

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Two sex offenders who caused an uproar when neighbors found out they were living feet from the community park have moved, but the battle isn’t over; the convicted sex offenders are taking the city of Orlando to court. Channel 9’s Jeff Levkulich was there as residents got an update on the situation from city leaders. David

LAKE MONROE, FLORIDA – September 16, 2015 The Florida Action Committee (FAC) has sued Seminole County and its Sheriff over the County’s proximity ordinance, which prohibits certain registered sexual offenders and predators from traveling through or being present within “exclusion zones” that encompass most of the County. The problem is that the zones are so broad and so vague that

A man, whose conviction dates back to 1999 was successful in getting an order stating that the residency restriction that was passed in 2003 does not apply to him, since the law was passed after his conviction and would constitute an ex-post-facto violation. As a result of the victory, he is now able to live with his mother (or wherever

The title to this article can be a paraphrase of an old Eagles song or the tagline for a Raid commercial, but unfortunately this saying isn’t being applied to bugs, but to human beings. On Friday, a Missouri Federal Judge ruled that the state’s civil commitment program needs to change. This ruling is the second in a few months (in