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Blogs with News Stories on Sex Offender Issues:
Can registrants visit schools in Florida?
It has concerned me for some time that some of our members think they can visit schools in Florida once they are off all sanctions. Florida Statute 856.022, subsection (1) lists the criminal offenses, where the victim was under 18 years of age at the time of the...
He Says, She Says
Law360 reports New York’s State Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assault conviction “has reignited a decades-old legal debate around whether sexual assault prosecutions should be excluded from the rule against allowing propensity evidence...
Florida, make better choices
By Sandy Rozek First published at narsol.org A 19-year-old Floridian charged with 30 counts of possession of child pornography deserves appropriate punishment but also needs a “specific target intervention focusing on dysfunctional internet use and sexually deviant...
Sexual assaults rising in some areas of the country
Politicians tell us that they are making society safer with the registry and all the laws that go with it. But in two cities in Tennessee, Clarksville and Nashville, that is proving not be the case. This year Clarksville, Tennessee, has seen a 37% increase in sexual...
A political party condemns candidacy of registrant
A local political party in Wyoming has condemned the candidacy of a registered “sex offender.” The offense occurred in 2002. The candidate states in the Wyoming Tribune Eagle, “All I can do is show our community that people can grow and learn from the (choices) from...
Chris Naco remains the sheriff of Pasco County
How can that be? Police would come to the house multiple times a day, harassing people after a family member was arrested. Sheriff Chris Naco of Pasco Co set out to reimagine policing in Pasco Co by adopting a controversial model for policing called predictive...
Is Our Criminal Justice System in Decline?
When an article published in 2020 by the CATO Institute was sent to me, I was dubious about posting it as the title, “America’s Criminal Justice System Is Rotten to the Core,” sounded harsh. Knowing that there are some people within the system who consciously follow...
Some people feel that more registries will cause all registries to collapse
Representative Aaron Bernstine of Pennsylvania has introduced legislation “modeled after Megan’s Law... for any crime committed against a child.” Bernstine has “co-sponsors for the bill from both sides of the aisle.” Legal analyst Blaine Jones says, “…when you have a...
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