The Crime Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

Prosecutors in the trial of Nikolas Cruz, accused in the 2018 Parkland, Fl., school shooting, say a juror walk through the crime scene at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School is necessary to determine the scope of what occurred during the shooting.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 31, 2023

Meanwhile, in Florida, Gov. But other states are still considering additional reforms, notably in less conservative states than Florida and Tennessee. But the death of Trye Nichols following a “confrontation” with five Memphis police officers captured on video shows the cracks in the departments’ efforts at reform.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Florida has the highest number of disenfranchised citizens, with more than 1.1 Ron DeSantis trumpeted a recent crackdown on election fraud in his campaign to retain the governorship, bujt many of the cases involved former felons who mistakenly thought they had the right to vote under Florida’s recent felony enfranchisement rfules.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 28, 2023

After the pickup in Cairo, Jesperson said he started driving back toward Florida. “At However, the woman in the Florida case would remain unidentified for decades, despite the relentless efforts of investigators. In April 1996, Florida sent one investigator, Glen Barbaree, to speak with Jesperson. By incident, he means murder.

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The Crime Report

MAY 5, 2021

In his report, entitled “The Long Road to Nowhere: How Southern States Struggle with Long-Term Incarceration ,” Davis focused on Alabama, Florida and Louisiana. Florida, with over 95,000 imprisoned people, has the nation’s third-largest prison popula­tion behind only Texas and California.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Florida used the law the most, 5,800 times, or 34 per 100,000 adult residents, but a few counties, not including Miami-Dade, make up the bulk of the gun seizures. In Chicago, more than 8,500 shootings resulted in 1,800 deaths since 2020. Yet, the law was used to seize guns just four times.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Two states passed bills this year that reduced sentencing for those participating in rehabilitation programs: Florida and Oklahoma. . Florida Senate Bill 752 in part allows probationers to get education and workforce credits that combine to reduce their sentence term.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The campaign, which is part of a multiyear, multi-million-dollar effort by the group to boost voter turnout among crime victims, will primarily concentrate on battleground states, including Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas, where competitive elections take place and a fresh influx of voters can have a significant impact.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The Florida experiment could be an important test of the impact guaranteed income could have for some of the most vulnerable members of society at a moment when the idea is picking up momentum , according to Vox News. . How “Just Income GNV” Works. “It’s a relief, which is amazing.

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The Crime Report

JULY 28, 2022

Conversely, Jacksonville (Duval County, Florida), a relatively conservative jurisdiction, eliminates up to 30 percent after thorough screening. is an associate professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida International University. It is supported by the Safety + Justice Challenge at the John D.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The former student who murdered his classmates and teachers in Parkland, Florida in 2018 pleaded guilty on Wednesday to the premeditated murder of 17 people and the attempted murder of 17 others, leaving his fate in the hands of a jury. He faces life in prison or execution, reports The New York Times.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Three jurors voted to spare Cruz’s life in Florida, where a unanimous vote is required to impose a death sentence. They questioned the purpose of the death penalty if it is not imposed on a mass murderer of mostly children.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The largest JAG state recipients include $19,447,453 to California’s Board of State and Community Corrections, $14,531,729 to the office for the Governor of Texas, and $10,886,155 to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. See also: New DOJ $$s to Combat Online Child Exploitation, Improve Reentry Services.

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The Crime Report

JULY 15, 2021

is Professor and Chair of the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida International University. D’Alessio is a professor of criminology and criminal justice at Florida International University. Percent of felony defendants rearrested pretrial by their felony conviction record. Lisa Stolzenberg, Ph.D.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 27, 2021

According to researchers at the University of California-Los Angeles’ COVID Behind Bars Data Project, which collects and analyzes data on the pandemic in corrections settings, at least a half-dozen states, including Florida and Georgia as well as Texas, provide even less information on COVID-19 cases and deaths in state prisons, local jails and juvenile (..)

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

D’Alessio is a professor of criminology and criminal justice at Florida International University. is Professor and Chair of the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida International University. Lisa Stolzenberg, Ph.D.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In Texas, as of February, 8,043 of the 24,020 jobs inside the correctional system were vacant, an all-time high, while Florida’s 24 percent vacancy rate has forced the temporary closure of some housing units and the calling in of the National Guard to help fill the void.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 18, 2021

Similarly, Florida passed an incredibly “forward thinking” data transparency law that requires contributors to provide defined justice data and statistics to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), paving the way for new data to be uncovered, according to the Criminal Justice Data Transparency website. .

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Hurricane Ian has been downgraded to a tropical storm, but officials warn the powerful storm is not done sweeping Florida towns and cities. Sheriff Carmine Marceno said he won’t evacuate inmates from a downtown Fort Myers facility with beds for just under 500 people, because emergency measures are in place to protect them.

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AUGUST 10, 2022

ADDITIONAL READING: Illinois Scores Top Rank in Reintegrating Ex-Incarcerees, Alaska, Florida are Lowest , The Crime Report, March 21, 2021. The bill has some exceptions, and landlords are expected to raise concerns as they did with the previous bill. James Van Bramer is associate editor of The Crime Report.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

According to a report by researchers at the University of Central Florida (UCF), parole officers and clients benefit from training programs that refocus community supervision, reports Phys.org. The study appears in Justice Quarterly.

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JUNE 28, 2021

Others were smaller but still consequential: sitting behind separate screens, clients and attorneys could no longer whisper to one another — a loss that Howard ‘Rex’ Dimmig , the public defender for the 10th Judicial Circuit of Florida, said conveys the disadvantages of virtual court proceedings. The quality of communication is impacted.”.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 26, 2022

The study found that Texas, California and Florida, which have the largest prison populations, saw a combined reduction of 84,100 individuals, or 39 percent of the total prison population decline. Overall, U.S. According to the BJS report, state corrections facilities held 197,300 fewer prisoners over the period, a 17 percent decline.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 27, 2022

In Okaloosa County, Florida , Corporal Ray Hamilton, who spent 5 years with the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office and Special Response Team, was killed by a stray bullet when a suspect refused to leave their home and began firing shots out of a window.

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

states, Florida included, ban people with felony convictions from voting, unless they satisfy “confusing criteria,” Laroche writes. “Nevertheless, while people across the United States have lauded Black women for saving the U.S. democracy after elections, they have also failed to prevent Black women’s vote from being suppressed.”.

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The Crime Report

MAY 19, 2021

The Prison Policy Initiative used data from the UCLA Law COVID-19 Behind Bars Data Project and The Marshall Project/AP to calculate the current rate of vaccinations in prisons across the United States except in Wyoming and Florida where state vaccination information has not been released.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 17, 2021

The other states that have seen the most over-60 losses are Texas, Massachusetts and Florida. .” California seniors account for more than $100 million of the losses, according to the report. “The pandemic required many elderly victims to shop online for the first time ever.

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OCTOBER 4, 2022

Florida: Zero Tolerance for Debtor Name Errors in UCC-1s. On August 25, 2022, the Florida Supreme Court issued an opinion in 1944 Beach Boulevard, LLC v Live Oak Banking Company (No. The effective date for the rule is January 1, 2024. Visit the FinCEN website to learn more. To read the final rule in its entirety, go here.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 11, 2021

In 2020, 12 inmates who escaped and are still on the run were from California, Florida, Louisiana, Texas, and Colorado. Over the past 18 months, 29 prisoners have escaped from federal lockups. Nearly have not been caught, says the Los Angeles Times. Two others who escaped this January who have not been caught.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Law-enforcement agencies have been slow to switch over to the new system and agencies in three of the most-populous states—California, Florida and New York—didn’t report figures, including departments in New York City and Los Angeles.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

The authors found a direct association between neighborhood eviction rates and crime rates, adding that eviction in higher-poverty neighborhoods was associated with increased incidence of robbery and burglary, but not homicide.

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The Crime Report

MAY 9, 2023

Florida , which held that juvenile offenders could not be sentenced to life without parole for non-homicide offenses; that such a punishment was disproportionate to the convicted offenses in violation of the 8 th Amendment. Five years after Roper , the Supreme Court handed down another juvenile justice decision, Graham v.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 17, 2021

A month later, in August 2021, UCLA found that Florida and Georgia had completely removed their COVID-19 data dashboards, while Louisiana drastically reduced its published data to only include active case counts, according to the report.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 27, 2022

Other states, such as Colorado, Florida and New Hampshire, prohibit the consideration of misdemeanors and lower-level, nonviolent felonies in licensure determinations, realizing that these offenses do not portend whether licensure will pose a risk to the public.

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Customs & International Trade Law

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) The CPSC’s Office of Import Surveillance released an update on its implementation of electronic filing of certificates of compliance via their December newsletter. The agency is continuing to collect data from the 30 importers participating in the eFiling beta pilot.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 23, 2022

Half of all incarcerated people serving LWOP are located in one of five states included in the review: California, Florida, Louisiana, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. Florida has the highest count of incarcerated people serving life without parole sentences.

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The Crime Report

JULY 30, 2021

But diversion programs, like most facets of the criminal legal system, are racially asymmetrical: white defendants are generally more likely to benefit from diversion programs than people of color, according to a study conducted by experts from Florida International University (FIU), Loyola University Chicago , and the Safety and Justice Challenge.

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