Category: Law
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Nudity, streaking, petting: New report details lives ruined for children put on sex-offender registriesBy Susan Ferriss 
 Center for Public Integrity
 Put on a sex registry for the offense of public nudity as a minor. Harassed by neighbors out of a home and banned from a homeless shelter because of an offense committed at age 15. The New York-based research group Human Rights Watch issued an extensive report Wednesday on the life-shattering consequences of putting minors on sex registries for offenses — sometimes shockingly mild offenses — for the rest of their lives.
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Fort Lauderdale police don’t enforce law requiring checks on buyers at gun showsBy William Hladky 
 BrowardBulldog.org
 An apparent misreading of state law by the Fort Lauderdale Police has kept officers from enforcing a Broward County ordinance that requires criminal background checks on gun buyers at gun shows.
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/ 6234 SEEN/ Reversal of Fortune: A Prosecutor on TrialBy Raymond Bonner 
 Special to ProPublica
 For 30 years, Ken Anderson was the face of law enforcement in Williamson County, Texas. Earlier this month, he walked into the courthouse again, this time as a defendant for helping to end an innocent man to prison.
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FBI records say Sarasota Saudis who fled home had “many connections” to individuals tied to 9/11By Dan Christensen and Anthony Summers 
 BrowardBulldog.org
 ©2013 Broward Bulldog, Inc. A Saudi family who “fled” their Sarasota area home weeks before September 11th had “many connections” to “individuals associated with the terrorist attacks on 9/11/2001,” according to newly released FBI records.
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Coconut Creek police probe of officer in bathtub Taser incident missed facts, short on answersBy Dan Christensen 
 BrowardBulldog.org
 An internal police investigation of a Coconut Creek officer who pulled his Taser while interrogating a frightened theft suspect in a bathtub omitted relevant facts and did not follow department policy.
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Don’t ask, don’t tell at the Broward State Attorney’s OfficeBy Dan Christensen 
 BrowardBulldog.org
 Broward prosecutors who declined to charge a Coconut Creek policeman who pulled a Taser on a frightened theft suspect standing in a bathtub never asked the officer under oath why he hadn’t mentioned the incident in his police reports.
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