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Blogs with News Stories on Sex Offender Issues:
As sex offenders around Tampa Bay age, where will they go for nursing care?
Roughly a third of all registered sex offenders in Pinellas County are 55 or older, according to Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office data. Many have spent decades behind bars and are reentering society as older adults. When their health deteriorates, these seniors often...
DE: HB306 is purely punitive
House Bill 306 is before the Delaware Legislature. For the 4,500-plus Delawareans who appear on the state Sex Offender Registry, the proposed legislation changes the restrictions designation on the front of their driver’s license from the current “Y” to “SO.” The bill...
Member Submission: Employment opportunities for people on the registry
If you know of anyone in any of the states listed below who is looking for entry level work, please send them my way. This work-from-home position involves talking on the phone through a computer. Much of it is doing political surveys. It is not difficult work, though...
Martin County Sheriff: to ask county leaders to require sex offenders to live farther from schools, parks, day cares
Martin County commissioners Tuesday will consider expanding the distance registered sex offenders in the county have to live from playgrounds, schools and day care centers. Current registered sex offenders living in the county would be grandfathered into the new rule,...
Member Submission: Check your registry information
In December 2020 I moved out of Florida to another state. At that time, I went to the sheriff's office to notify them I was moving. They changed my registry, at that time, to show I had left the state. Fast forward to last month (June 2022): For the heck of it, I...
Congress can’t punt its lawmaking responsibility to the attorney general
In 2006, Congress passed the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA), which requires states to keep registries for those convicted of sex offenses. SORNA also makes it a federal crime for an offender to fail to register with his state. But Congress did...
Controversy highlights difficulty of housing sex offenders who have completed their sentences
At a public meeting in Joliet, residents stood up and spoke out against an apartment building that houses sex offenders in a city neighborhood — with one resident lamenting that she wouldn’t let children play outside unless she was on her lunch break, according to a...
MUST READ: Sex offender registries don’t make us any safer. Abolishing them would
This is a MUST READ and MUST SHARE article from Emily Horowitz. Much thanks to Emily for calling out many of the atrocities taking place here in Florida. . There is a growing consensus that our approach to punishment in the criminal legal system creates more harm...
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