Michael Thomas Dolce Law Blog

Colodny, Fass, Talenfeld, Karlinsky & Abate Associate Michael Dolce, a nationally recognized civil litigator, was recently appointed to the Florida Council Against Sexual Violence Board of Directors (“FCASV”), on which he will serve with various prominent statewide advocates for victims of sexual abuse.

“I’m gratified to have the opportunity... Read More

The U.S. Department of Justice recently released a report entitled "The Sexual Victimization Reported by Adult Correctional Authorities, 2007-08" that examines incidents of inmate-on-inmate and staff-on-inmate sexual victimization.  It presents counts of nonconsensual sexual acts, abusive sexual contacts, staff sexual misconduct and staff sexual harassment in adult prisons, jails and other... Read More

From the Sarasota Herald-Tribune Front Page--January 22, 2011

Fort Lauderdale attorney Michael Dolce, who has lobbied for stricter laws against sex offenders, said the Florida Legislature will likely need to fix the system with more funding or tweak the law, but it is unlikely the system will go away altogether.

"I don't think it's in danger; I don't think the... Read More

Reprinted from the April 7, 2010

Catholic Church lobbying to retain the current time restrictions on lawsuits against institutions

By Dara Kam
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Posted: 8:54 p.m. Wednesday, April 7, 2010

A decades-old scandal in which a Wisconsin priest is accused of
molesting more than 200 deaf boys could be the saving grace for a
proposed change to Florida law that the Catholic Church... Read More

Because sexual predators are known to have one of the highest rates of recidivism, Florida’s Jimmy Ryce Act of 1998 recognized the critical need to detain offenders on a civil basis after their prison terms in order to keep society safe. 

Since becoming effective, the Act has detained some of the most dangerous predators in treatment centers, thus preventing recurrences of the types of cases in which children have been attacked by known predators within... Read More

To view the recently issued U.S. Department of Health and Human Services report on 2009 Child Maltreatment statistics, click here.

During federal Fiscal Year 2009, an estimated 3.3 million referrals, involving the alleged maltreatment of approximately 6.0 million children, were received by child protective services ("CPS") agencies.  Of these referrals, 61.9 percent were screened in for a... Read More