Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
Florida Action Committee · Media Buzz Keefe Named FDLE Commissioner; Glass Heads to Miami-Dade Florida has a new law-enforcement chief. Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Cabinet selected Larry Keefe to lead the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, replacing Mark Glass. The Palm Beach Post has the appointment details. Keefe served as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Florida from
Read moreFLORIDA • CHILD SAFETY • YOUTH • PUBLIC POLICY 🚨🧒 If the Registry Protects Children, Why Are Children on It? ⚖️📊 Florida’s own government reports, public-health guidance and research raise questions that deserve serious discussion about youth, rehabilitation, public disclosure and where sexual harm to children actually occurs. Can publicly identifying a child for years or decades be shown to
Read moreEmily Horowitz, author and Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice, has put together the Registry Fact Sheet linked to below. This is a very well researched, comprehensive document that is full of useful information (including authorities) that you can cite to when contacting your legislators, the media or anyone you communicate on sex offender issues with. Thank you Dr. Horowitz
Read moreAdd Kania to the list of cases where individuals convicted of online solicitation offenses had their “associated” charges dismissed on double jeopardy grounds. Last week, the 2nd DCA threw out the “unlawful use of a two-way communications device” conviction of a defendant who was also convicted of traveling to meet a minor in 2012, finding that it was part of
Read moreSex Offender Sues Twitter Although the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that States cannot restrict a registered sex offender’s access to social media (Packingham v. North Carolina, 582 U.S. ___ (2017)), nothing has stopped social media companies, such as Facebook, from restricting sex offenders from their platforms. A lawsuit filed last week may change that! Jared Taylor is
Read moreScam Directed at Registered Sex Offenders We have received several emails from members advising us that they have received a letter from a law firm in Texas, Estes-Hightower, PLLC stating they “received their contact information” from the state’s Public Safety Sex Offender Registry” and to contact them to see whether they are eligible for “early removal from the Sex Offender
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