One to See Change: 02/01/2015

Monday, February 23, 2015

Broward terminal Police slaps man

Sunday, February 22, 2015

California: Sex offenders often targets as California prisons see high rate of homicides

Sex offenders often targets as California prisons see high rate of homicides
The problem is most acute with sex offenders. Last fall, the corrections department's inspector general reported that so many homicides occurred in the ...

Lawmakers demand fast action on sex offender housing shortage

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Florida Action Committee Recent Posts: February, 18, 2015

As Lauren Book Hints at Run, Some Question if Her Charity Could Become Political Tool
February 18, 2015

Courtesy of Lauren’s Kids Lauren Book has started a political fundraising committee, fueling speculation she might be considering a run. As she climbed the hill leading to...
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No Sex Offender Label for Convicted ‘Officer of the Year’ in Florida
February 18, 2015

We posted about this yesterday, however it’s such a crock of ____ that it was worthy of adding this article to the pile. It seems that, In Florida, if you are a politician,...
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N.Y. court tosses local limits on sex offenders’ homes
February 18, 2015

The following article appeared in USA Today. Before anyone in Florida gets too excited, the preemption argument was tried here already several years ago and failed. ...
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Sex traffickers targeting South Florida schools
February 17, 2015

Is this article for real?!?! Can someone tell me where they got the statistic that one in three middle school children are being targeted for sex trafficking? Story by...
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Why no sex offender tag for guilty cop?
February 17, 2015

This article is not so newsworthy or republished here because a police officer got off easy after sexually assaulting multiple victims. We know that’s not anything new or...
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NH Supreme Court Rules That Retroactive, Lifetime Registration Requirement Is Unconstitutional As Applied To ACLU Client
February 16, 2015

In a victory for fundamental fairness, the New Hampshire Supreme Court held today that New Hampshire’s law requiring the registration of certain criminal offenders is...
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Florida sex offender allowed to spend $3 million lottery jackpot winnings despite alleged victims’ lawsuit
February 16, 2015

A convicted sex offender can spend his $3 million Florida lottery winnings any way he wants, over the protestations of two of his alleged victims, a judge ruled Friday. Timothy...

Five Questions with Pervert Park Directors Frida and Lasse Barkfors | Filmmaker Magazine

Monday, February 16, 2015

Movies to Watch

http://onetoseechange.blogspot.com/p/movie-portraying-truth.html

Saturday, February 14, 2015

Ohio’s child-molester sentencing law is unconstitutional, justices rule

Florida Action Committee Recent Post: Feburary 14, 2015

Florida ‘Sex Offender Village’ becomes refuge for the reviled

February 9, 2015

PAHOKEE, Florida (WTLV) — Stuck like a sandspur to the eastern edge of Lake Okeechobee and surrounded by thousands of acres of sugar cane, Pahokee is about as remote as...
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Teen sex a crime? Ky high court to hear case

February 9, 2015

The following is a repost of an article in Cincinnati.com that was significant to share here. The eighth-grade boy and his seventh-grade girlfriend had been dating about...
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Sex offender had only one place to live: a parking lot

February 15, 2015

TAMPA — As a convicted sex offender, Antonio Rodriguez Rivera was ordered to live in a small parking lot on Channelside Drive. Rivera, who had been prosecuted for impregnating...
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Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Hartford: Legislature holds hearing on bill to protect seniors from sex offenders

Legislature holds hearing on bill to protect seniors from sex offenders

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

UK: Child prisoners more likely to become sex offenders, report suggests

Child prisoners more likely to become sex offenders, report suggests

Telegraph.co.uk

Child prisoners more likely to become sex offenders, report suggests ... about issues such as equality, respect, sexuality, gender identity and sexual ...

Saturday, February 7, 2015

Florida Action Committee Recent Posts

Reminder: Serious penalties come for failure to register

February 5, 2015

This article reminds us that serious consequences come for failing to register. The offender committed his offense in 1997, almost 20 years ago, but now is being held in jail...
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The Pot Calling the Kettle Black

February 5, 2015

As a Detective, Dione Thompson’s job was to inform the community of Sex Offenders. Ironically, prior to that role she was a school resource officer who is alleged to...
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Chime in on VAs proposed bill to ban registrant parents from school

February 4, 2015

Currently, a registrant who has a child enrolled in a school is able to be present on school property to drop off and pick up their child and attend school functions when their...
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Friday, February 6, 2015

Florida lawmakers to revisit sexting law

BS National: Military sex offenders can fly under states' radar

National: Military sex offenders can fly under states' radar

USA TODAY

When a sex offender is released from a military prison, the Department of ... "We recognize that due to jurisdictional issues there are gaps in former ...

In New York and Vermont Legislation

Vermont: Bill tightens restrictions on sex offenders released from prison

vtdigger.org

As the law stands, a sex offender who is completing his or her maximum ... All sex offenders are required to tell the state where they plan to reside within ... issues with the registry, such as inconsistencies in registration requirements ...

New York: Senator Ken LaValle: Senate Passes Bills to Toughen Penalties on Sex Offenders

LongIsland.com

... sex offenders evade registration requirements, and create a public awareness program to educate schools, community groups, and clergy on issues ...

New York: Sex Offender Legislation Makes Progress In Senate

The Daily Voice

Under current law, offenders only are required to register their primary ... to schools, community groups, and clergy on issues related to sex offenders.

Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Florida Action Committee Recent Posts

REMINDER: Call To Action – STOP Lifetime GPS
February 2, 2015

We are currently in Pre-legislative session when all the bills are being considered. This year, as we have mentioned, there is a “Lifetime Monitoring” bill which will...
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No other industrialized country treats sex offenders this way.

February 2, 2015

With the recent attention incarceration rates have received, we wanted to share some excerpts from Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics, by Marie...
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WI: Residency Restrictions Backfiring

February 2, 2015

A Wisconsin news station ran this report in which the reporters, politicians and their department of corrections acknowledge that the residency restrictions have backfired. Now,...
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Sunday, February 1, 2015

ALERT: Bill in US Congress affecting CERTAIN registered sex offenders

On a Personal Note

Thanks for the opportunity to express my thoughts regarding the issue of citizens’ rights, particularly addressing certain sex offenders’ crimes that do not fit the devastating, inequitable and endless punishment given.

As you know, many young men and women lives across the nation are being destroyed by incarceration, life-time registry and restrictive laws that do more harm than good. For those individuals, there is no second chance.

Below is a personal letter to President Obama:
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“Dear President Obama,

I truly agree with your sentiments that individuals, such as ex-felons, should be able to receive a second chance at life. Since we all know that one can veer off that path of life and travel along rough, rocky terrain, sometimes running off and ending up in some ditch. We all have made our fill of mistakes and sometimes those held a costly consequence that changed life forever. So we lived through it, trying harder to make things right with family, friends and those around us, but what about those who aren’t able to make things right even if they tried…because they’re labeled as too dirty, a leper, a person who is rejected from society and home.

But what if they’re a seventeen year old and had sex with a fifteen year old, consensual at that? Or they’re a teen that had gotten so enraged after a breakup that he sent out naked pictures of his girlfriend on his cell phone or email? Or an individual urinates where someone just happens to see them?

All are wrong and a travesty but do they deserve the life of no second chance with a registry that ends all. They are labeled, no jobs, no where to live…they have been deemed a menace to society, a plague. These certain circumstances, and many other situations similar to these, I believe still deserve a second change.

Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

After my son’s early release and two years of prison, I thought I had handled that fact graciously knowing after serving his time he would be able to get that fresh start, that second chance. He was an exemplary inmate, GED, college courses and vocational classes. Little did I know that a second chance on the outside was the farthest from the truth? He now struggles and lives in a trailer park sharing a trailer with another and surrounded by others in the same rocking boat, one to float endlessly in shark infested waters. I see him little because of probation requirements (he couldn’t live with us because we were 800 feet near a school). My family is afraid of what would happen to them if he lived with them…vigilantism. My son has no other place to stay since others condemn him of his crime that is screamed from the highest rooftop. Sex offender, sex offender!

Not all sex offenders are pedophiles or predators but some are simply young kids that make one stupid and rash decision that eventually changes everything, and they have no idea what they’ve done until their life is never their own. Exactly, where is that second chance for those sex-offenders who are lumped together with pedophiles and predators? Now, it makes me sick to think of my son’s future and many like him that are on the registry and many with no second chance…ever. I am asking you as a mother and as another concerned citizen of the United States that these laws are looked at again and taken into serious consideration in what they are doing to the Constitution of the United States, not for sex offenders in general but the future rights of every citizen, before anymore are put into effect. They unjustly strip an offender of their rights and place them in a guillotine that can be easily set off by anyone and at anytime. Where is the second chance for ex-sex offenders in the present, pending and future laws?”
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What truly saddens me is the weakness and deterioration of what the sex offense issue is doing to our once, great nation. Across Europe, others are seeing the injustice and disregard of rights, but we ignore this problem and it makes me wonder where humanity is heading….

We have become a hysterical society in which our latest witch-hunt is a sex offender--no matter his/her crime.

Below is a email sent from a foreign advocate to a father of a sex offender:
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“The tragic story of your son's death is just so sad that it's difficult to explain how. It was very hard to read your letters. It seems almost unbelievable that this can take place in a democracy! From our point of view, there is no justice in this. Not in any way: not for you, your son, the former girl friend – or even the state.

It is an abusive legal system. It seems barbaric. And we are so very sorry that this takes place. That's why it's so important for us to try to neutralize the debate with this…, hopefully making some changes. ….. to show the every day life of the sex offenders, trying to show how they keep on being punished, even after served prison time…..But we will for sure tell the story of the injustice that your son has been exposed to.”
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I appreciate everyone's commitment and backing to protect everyone's civil rights, plainly as noted in the Constitution of the United States and is presupposed, giving ALL men are “life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.”

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