Florida authorities recently announced that they arrested 35 alleged sex offenders in Pinellas County.The sting was actually a collaborative effort, involving the local police, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the FBI, and the U.S. Department of Homeland...
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Month: January 2014
Police shoot Florida man suspected of child pornography
In a legal dispute, opposing sides may have different factual accounts of the events or evidence. Witnesses and experts may also have different interpretations of documentary evidence. When disagreements over facts do arise, a judge typically responds to evidentiary...
Data alone may not measure rehabilitation odds of sex offenders
In a recent post, we discussed some of the pending sex offender legislation before Florida lawmakers. In this post, we provide an update on how some of those proposals have fared in the Florida Senate.One article described the response of several Senate committees as...
Juvenile defendant faces 20 years of sex offender registration
Readers may not have realized that a sexual assault conviction, arising in the context of alleged date rape, might include a penalty of sex offender registration in some jurisdictions.A high school football player recently received this harsh penalty -- and made...
Florida man’s ID card falsely labeled him as a sex offender
Readers of this sex crimes blog have learned about the restrictions that may follow an individual who served time for a sex crime. The most obvious example is sex offender registration. However, readers may not have realized that state identification cards and...