Seeking volunteers for the Legislative Committee
We are well under way with our 2026-2027 FAC email campaign. Our focus this year is an bill for the Florida Legislature whose purpose is to allow youthful offenders to petition for removal from the registry after 10 years instead of after 25 years. This is FAC’s first ever bill, a momentous event!
Every time an email on a particular topic is sent to a state legislator, a ping is recorded on the subject matter. We want to have many pings recorded.
We need approximately 50-plus people to send a short email to our Florida legislators (and their aides) through the 2027 legislative session. Each person would be given a specific week to send out their emails. The idea is to have all legislators (and their aides) receive emails every week from now through the April of 2027, so the pings continue to grow in number. And you are building a relationship with our legislators.
Currently we have 32 participants but need 25 more volunteers to take us through the legislative session, ending April 30, 2027.
The legislators/aides email addresses have been compiled so that you can copy/paste them individually into your “To” line. They will be sent to you once you notify Sarah that you would like to participate in our email campaign.
This campaign is to focus on our Young Adult Registry Petition Act that will be proposed for the 2027 session. This bill provides a mechanism for removal from the registry for those with sex offenses which occurred when they were 25 years of age or younger.
Our goal is to change the narrative as well as emotionally illustrate the human impact of the registry. You would write five or six sentences briefly expressing your concerns. Then you will ask the legislators to support the bill.
Please respond to Sarah’s attention at [email protected] if you are willing to participate in this campaign with us, and she will work with you on the best week for you to do this. If there is a month from now through April 2027 that you would prefer to send your emails, please let Sarah know.
Everyone who is participating in the email campaign will be provided with a “talking-points sheet” about the Young Adult Registry Petition Act and facts about the registry. You can select your points from this sheet, but write them in your own words, or write your own narrative.
Thank you to everyone who is participating in this project.
FAC Legislative Team
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Just sent my email to Sarah.
Maby start using Blind carbon copy when your volunteers send email blasts out. I sent my email in to Sarah and an hour later I’m copied in an email with several other people who emails I can also see. It’s impossible to keep your information private I get it. But I do not like having mine share with other people I do not know and would not normally have exchanged it with. And it’s about something completely different. I appreciate all you do. But that’s a very minimal ask for helping keep some level of privacy.
I cannot even image kids being on the registry. That is going to haunt them for the rest of their lives and make many of them give up hope for a future. Sucks already for adults, but most of us are strong enough to get through it, but a vulnerable kid being placed on a registry could cause mental, emotional and even physical issues.
There are already kids that were bullied that have committed suicide, add the registry to a kid and who knows what their life is going to evolve into.
Yes and needs to be addressed scared for my autistic son who a youth
This is a baby step but a step i think should have been taken a long time ago if not by FAC who are constantly working to help us, then someone like the ACLU and so on. Why are we just restricting it to age by the way? what about the guy/girl that was urinating and was charged with exposing him/herself close to a school or a place where children congregate? doe that person deserve to be on the registry for life? there should be a 3 tier system with the worst on there for life(predators) tier 1 you can get off it in 10 years tier 2 / 20 years and tier 3 is lifetime. The states attorney wont care they get their conviction that’s all they care about and with the correct recidivism rate presented to the proper authorities i don’t see how they could deny a tier system. If Byron Donald wins the governorship i think he is a man of common sense and is not gun ho about stringing sex offenders up like DeSantis was. if we have to take this to the Florida supreme court i think its worth it. Same as murder. there is 1st degree/manslaughter/2nd degree etc… almost every crime has a tier system. resent politicians with some crazy cases that happened in Florida that resulted in someone ending up on the registry and let them decide if that person/persons should be on for life.