Our System Is Not Doing the Thing It Says It Intends to Do

August 5, 2020, 8:56 am The whole idea was that we are going to protect children. But because most abuse of children happens inside the family, the registry doesn’t affect that. It just creates more “stranger danger” fear.

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UK: Online naming and shaming ‘threatening offender rehabilitation’

August 5, 2020, 8:37 am According to Detective Superintendent Stewart Gull, the recent spate of ‘naming and shaming’ local offenders online after their sentences have been carried out is posing serious problems for their ability to reintegrate into

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Judge Salas speaks out against too much public information

August 5, 2020, 8:33 am Federal Judge Esther Salas, whose son was tragically killed last week, spoke out for the first time since the incident. As she explained in a video published by the Savoy Show, “A madman

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Weekly Update 2020-08-04 Ref#102

August 5, 2020, 7:37 am Dear Members and Advocates, This past month we lost the last of the “Big Six”, when Representative John Lewis died. The Big Six were leaders of six civil rights organizations who helped organize

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Weekly Update 2020-07-29 Ref#101

July 31, 2020, 8:04 pm Dear Members and Advocates, We start this week’s update with an apology to “Pariah.oo1″, who had posted a comment to our discussion on the proposed amendment to the Brevard Ordinance. The proposed amendment

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MI: Man wrongly imprisoned for FTR can’t sue state

July 31, 2020, 8:25 am The Michigan Supreme Court has stopped a man from suing the state after he spent more than a year in prison for a crime that wasn’t a crime. The man was behind bars

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Tropical Storm Isaias heading towards Florida

July 30, 2020, 12:24 pm News stations in South Florida are beginning to report on Tropical Storm Isaias, which could hit our state as soon as Saturday. We hope none of our members or loved ones will be

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Colorado board that writes rules for management of sex offenders rife with conflicts, state audit finds

July 29, 2020, 2:39 pm Members of a state board that writes the rules for how Colorado sex offenders are supervised voted on policy revisions that benefited their firms, which held state contracts worth millions of dollars annually,

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Stetson University Researcher Says Porn Does Not Cause Violent Sex Crimes

July 29, 2020, 2:36 pm “During the past few years, many states have declared that pornography is a public health crisis,” said Ferguson. “Dr. Hartley and I were curious to see if evidence could support such claims, at

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Some Brevard County Talking Points

July 29, 2020, 2:13 pm Brevard County currently has an ordinance that makes it illegal for registrants to enter into or remain within the 1000-foot buffer zone surrounding any school, daycare center, park or playground, with only a

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WI: Convicted sex offender sues Muskego for rejecting his move into the city

July 29, 2020, 6:48 am A convicted sex offender has filed a federal lawsuit challenging Muskego’s rules that restrict where he can live, or whether he can live in the city at all. In the lawsuit filed in U.S.

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IL: Lawsuit dismissed after sex offenders living at Aurora ministry find new homes

July 28, 2020, 6:20 am Sex offenders who sued to stay at the Wayside Cross Ministries halfway house in downtown Aurora after a judge ruled it is too close to a playground have dropped their litigation after all

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Scam Alert: “Impact Legal Research” soliciting registrants.

July 24, 2020, 8:57 am There’s nothing that gets my blood boiling more than individuals who try to cash in on the vulnerability of registrants and who use the public registry as a marketing database for their racket.

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Weekly Update 2020-07-22 Ref#99

July 23, 2020, 1:46 pm Dear Members and Advocates, This week a “fire” erupted and we saw an example of why it is so important we stay organized and able to mobilize quickly. Brevard County is seeking to

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Pay up or lockup

July 22, 2020, 7:16 pm David, 28, was counting the days until January 6, 2012, when his prison sentence would end and he would be released on parole. He had earned his GED diploma inside and lined up

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U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division

July 22, 2020, 6:13 pm The U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division claims they uphold the Constitutional rights of all people in the United States (note the emphasis on “all” was theirs, not ours). Let’s see if

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Feds kept quiet reports of ‘staff-on-child’ sex abuse at Miami-Dade detention center

July 20, 2020, 5:53 pm At least four Central American immigrant children reported being sexually abused by staff members at the privately run Homestead detention center for unaccompanied minors, the Miami Herald reports. No one went to prison

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UPDATED CALL TO ACTION: Brevard County. Oppose proposed ordinance

July 20, 2020, 12:08 pm [FAC NOTE: This is turning on absurd. Now businesses will be able to order persons forced to register can’t go within 1000 feet of their business?!?!] As it stands, any person convicted of

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Another murder of someone on the registry: Texas man charged with murder of alleged sex offender near Carlsbad

July 20, 2020, 11:34 am A Texas man was charged with first degree murder in the March 16 death of an alleged Lea County sex offender living in Eddy County, according to a criminal complaint filed by the Carlsbad

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Frightening number of Coronavirus cases in Florida prisons

July 17, 2020, 7:50 pm Union officials at Federal Correctional Complex Coleman and Federal Correctional Institution Miami sounded the alarm on just how bad the conditions are inside the facilities. Kareen Troitino, the FCI Miami corrections officer union

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