Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
News 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
Read moreSex Offender Registry News Although FAC has not been served yet, we have been made aware that clearmycase.com has sued us for defamation. While it’s generally not advisable to comment on pending litigation, we wanted to keep our members informed, especially in light of yesterday’s article in the Miami Herald which implied this was a dispute among sex offender advocates.
Read moreNews About Florida Sex Offender Registry Maybe we should call it a war between sex offender advocates? Strange lawsuit filed in a local federal court: A Texas-based service that claims to help sexual offenders get off the state registry that limits where they can live and work is suing a Boynton Beach nonprofit that wants to loosen registry rules. “I
Read moreNews About Florida Sex Offender Laws JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Registered sex offenders in the River City may soon be able to live closer to schools, public libraries and other places children frequent if the Jacksonville City Council has anything to say about it. The city council will undergo a second reading of city ordinance 2017-667 on Tuesday. The bill’s primary
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