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The following article could just as easily be titled, “After 18 years, man still harassed for being on the registry”. It reports on a woman who was found guilty and charged $1500 for harassing a registrant. The victim of the harassment was on the registry for a 1997 sexual battery charge. The woman and the registrant formerly lived in the

Challenges Hartford City child safety zones Rebecca S. Green The Journal Gazette Convicted sex offender Brian Valenti would like to take his daughter bowling. And to church. And although it’s been more than 20 years since he was convicted of the crime in Los Angeles County, California, the 47-year-old Blackford County man is prohibited from doing those and other activities

Yesterday, the New York Times reported that the State of Utah just passed the first “white-collar felon” registry. The registry, which would be available online, much like the the sex offender registry is, would enable the public in Utah to be able to know if someone they are considering doing business with, associating with, or just for fun, has committed

HB 1261 seeks to impose an “Offender Registration Fee” which permits the Sheriff of each county to charge sexual offenders an annual fee of up to $100 and $200 for predators. Non-residents who register when they visit Florida will be charged a $300 initial registration fee. Failure to pay this fee (unless waived) is a second degree misdemeanor.   You

A report by Jill S. Levenson and Kristen M. Zgoba, published in the International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology finds that “sex crime repeat arrest rates in Florida did not appear to show a decline after SORN laws or other policies were implemented around 1997.” This finding is significant in that all the money that is being spent

A series of new bills have been filed affecting sex offenders. Below are the bill numbers and a sentence on what they cover:     SB 134 – Lifetime Electronic Monitoring of Sex Offenders (HB 203) This bill requires sex offenders be on lifetime electronic monitoring.   SB 336 – Sexual Predators and Offenders (HB 387) This requires risk assessments