A new law that would ban texting while driving has passed the Florida State Senate in a 34-4 vote last week. Now, however, it must pass the House where there is expected to be some resistance. [Read more...]
In the final days of this Florida legislative session, one of the items on the agenda is reform of Florida’s outdated laws regarding what is known today as “sexting”.
As the law stands now, teens who send explicit photos to each other could face felony child pornography charges, and a lifetime as a registered sex offender. But clearly the laws against child pornography were not written in an era when every teen had a camera connected to the internet inside their phone. And few people equate a teen sending a picture of himself/herself ( even a sexually explicit one) as the same thing as an adult trafficking in child pornography. [Read more...]
A report this past week in the St. Petersburg Times uncovers a former judge’s newest job as being the founder and main instructor at a center called the Bonanno Probation & Violation Center. Although it isn’t clear if the judge is doing anything wrong, he has his critics as well as his supporters in this venture. [Read more...]
Recent numbers are showing a frightening trend in domestic violence cases in Florida. Although crime overall is declining in Florida and across the country, domestic violence is on the rise. As reported by ABC Action News out of Tampa Bay the trend moving crime from the public eye into the privacy of the home gives domestic violence advocates a “hit in the gut”. [Read more...]
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