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The Jimmy Ryce Act (Jimmy Ryce Involuntary Civil Commitment for Sexually Violent Predators' Treatment And Care Act) was passed unanimously by the Florida legislature and was signed by Governor Lawton Chiles on May 19, 1998, becoming effective on January 1, 1999.
Under the Jimmy Ryce Act, since 1999 inmates "with sex offense histories" due to be released from a Florida prison are reviewed by the Florida Department of Corrections, the Florida Department of Children and Families, and state attorneys to assess the level of risk for re-offense. This includes those who have completed a sentence for a sex ...
Ryce lobbied for sexual predator legislation, created the Jimmy Ryce Center for Victims of Predatory Abduction, and was a founder of Team Hope, a group of parents of abducted children supporting parents and families facing child abduction. Ryce also worked for passage of the Jimmy Ryce Act. She was inducted into the Florida Women's Hall of Fame ...
Don Ryce, a labor lawyer who with his wife became a leading advocate for missing children after their 9-year-old son was abducted, raped and murdered in South Florida, died Saturday. The cause of ...
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Fabiola Santiago says: “Parents are rightfully asking: Why was Cruz’s troubled life considered more valuable to preserve than those he took?”
Jimmy Ryce: Juan Carlos Chavez Redland, Florida, US 9 Murdered Ryce was supposed to be coming home from school but never came back. Juan Carlos Chavez took responsibility and led police to the body he had sexually assaulted, decapitated, and dismembered. [93] 16 September 1995 Jessyca Mullenburg Steven Oliver Eau Claire, Wisconsin, US 13 Rescued
The crime led to the passage of the Jimmy Ryce Act, which prescribes conditions for the involuntary civil commitment of sex offenders upon release from prison. Juan Carlos Chavez was executed by the state of Florida in 2014. [29] The site where Jimmy Ryce was dropped off by the school bus remains a memorial site in Redland to this day. [30]