Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
Florida Sex Offender News For 12 years, Miami-Dade’s registered sex offenders have been barred from living within 2,500 feet of any school, playground, or daycare. They’re effectively homeless by law, and today hundreds live in squalor in makeshift “tent cities” under bridges, near trailer parks, and on roadsides. After New Times reported on a camp near Hialeah, county officials called these encampments
Read moreFlorida Sex Offenders Excellent reporting and follow up from Isabella Gomes of the Miami New Times. Her story follows: Beneath a shredded blue tarp, 58-year-old Claudia Baker takes a swig of A&W root beer. “Imagine your faucet dripping at night. That’s what life is like for us—except instead of just hearing the drip, we feel it,” she says. After serving
Read moreNo Florida Sex Offenders Arrested by Sheriff Grady Judd Sheriff Grady Judd held another of his “cutesy titled” sex offender stings, “Operation No Tricks, No Treats”, where he posts fake ads online and waits for people to respond to them. Florida Sting Arrests primarily for prostitution This time he netted 277 arrests, including a Sargent from his own police department.
Read moreNews on Sex Offender Registry As we mentioned in our weekly update, every year, patch.com publishes city maps, highlighting the addresses of registered sex offenders, claiming they are “Halloween Safety Maps”. Well they are not. As NARSOL points out in a letter to Patch, this type of fear mongering is counter-productive and creates hysteria where none exists. Please see their
Read moreNews About Florida Sexual Offender Last week, Hernando County deputies put up an alert about a missing sex offender who they reported had cut off his ankle monitor and disappeared. Yesterday, the man was found dead, with the Hernando Sheriff calling him the “victim of foul play” We will continue to monitor this case to determine whether the registrant was
Read moreNews About Sex Offender Registry – Michigan The Michigan Supreme Court is hearing a case today concerning a man who decades ago touched a girls breasts. His probation and community service were completed in 1997 and his case was dismissed. He has no conviction. Even though his criminal case is sealed and the general public would otherwise have no knowledge
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