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Please allow us to introduce ourselves. The purpose of Florida Action Committee is to educate the Media, our Legislators and Public with the facts surrounding Sex Offender Issues. Our intent and concern is for every citizen of Florida; particularly those assuring a safer environment for our children - our future.
We all live in difficult times and when people have instant access of information through media, internet and newspapers it is at times abused with sensationalism and hysteria which usually lays a path that all hurry on and trampling everything in the wake.
It is Florida Action Committee’s perseverance of providing verity in facts about what has been created thus far within our government and to realize what the future will hold in the State of Florida if it continues along that rocky path.
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Are sex offense laws too broad?
By: Maggie Clark, Stateline Staff Writer
Over eight years in the Missouri House, Republican Representative Rodney Schad has gotten numerous phone calls, letters, and emails from registered sex offenders and their families about the damage the registry has caused in their lives — the harassment, persistent unemployment, and community ostracism. Three years ago, Schad decided to start researching the state's registration policy, and what he found surprised him.
"There's no way to tell who's dangerous and who isn't," says Schad. "[People] look up their address and see 10 offenders living or working near their house." In his view, the list is becoming bloated and less helpful to ordinary citizens than it should be. READ MORE
Inside Story: The US Prison System
By: Sadhbh Walshe
Around two years ago, six ICE agents entered the home of a 20-year-old man named Adam while he was sleeping. They put a gun to his head and informed him they had a warrant to search his premises for child pornography.
Adam is a musician and was a frequent user of the peer-to-peer file-sharing website Limewire, which he used to download and share music videos. The search of his computer hard drive yielded 2,331 videos, most of which were music and a small portion of which were adult porn. Two suspect child porn videos featuring girls aged 16-17, and another video apparently featuring a three year-old, had been downloaded and deleted.
Adam claims that the downloads were accidental, and that although he occasionally indulged in adult porn (like many men his age), he has no interest in child pornography (CP), never sought it out and deleted the downloaded items as soon as he realized what they were. The fact that the forensic evidence showed that the items were never viewed and that there was no record of any keyword searches that would indicate he was looking for CP would seem to back up that claim.
But it didn't matter: Adam was charged... READ MORE.
