By Tim Botos . . . A sex offender moved into the Avondale neighborhood a few years ago. “And a lot of residents weren’t happy about it,” said Anthony DeGirolamo, president of the Avondale Community Improvement Association, comprised of the 374 homeowners
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By Sandy . . . Mary Moore of Clayton County, Georgia, was 21 years old in September of 2022. That is surely very young to be a corrections officer and a security specialist in a county jail, responsible for assuring that jail
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Florida Action Committee . . . Citizens and organizations across Florida are alarmed as the legislature appears headed to pass a law already found unconstitutional in Louisiana and Alabama, potentially leaving Florida taxpayers on the hook for hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal disputes. Florida House of Representatives bill
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Reproduced in full with author permission. Originally published at little red dots. By Guy Hamilton-Smith . . . Time for another very exciting post, this time about a research brief commissioned by the federal SMART office — the office responsible for federal policy
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If you live in Florida. help stop SB 1252, red lettering of registry designation on drivers’ licenses and state ID cards. This has been ruled unconstitutional in Alabama and Louisiana, yet Florida is pushing forward with it. See our call to action
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By Steve Yoder . . . On Nov. 1, Fort Lauderdale, Florida’s leaders paused during a city council meeting to highlight that they’d declared November to be “Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Month.” “Homelessness was one of the main reasons I ran for office,”
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In 2015, the ACLU of Rhode Island, on the heels of an announcement that the residency restriction distance for certain registrants would be increased from 300 to 1.000 feet, filed a suit to block the move and asked for a temporary restraining
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Today, Hunter spoke with David Garlock, a formerly incarcerated and current criminal justice reformer, to discuss how David’s journey from victim, to prison, to life after prison has landed him advocating to end sex offender registries. As a child, David endured nearly
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Highlights of the Conference Speakers: There was an array of speakers covering many of the issues of interest to our population, including electronic monitoring, legislative strategies, traveling as a registered individual, collaboration among organizations, the church’s response to folks on the registry,
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Read Part I Part II PART III: Going forward By Erik . . . That which does not kill you will only makes you stronger, and there are lessons to be gleaned from every experience, even the most negative. In that
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