Author: FAC Contributor #3

Open Letter to Merrick Garland, Attorney General Let us begin with some words. You may be familiar with them. They come from the statement of Chanel Miller, the victim of a notorious sexual assault. She said: “You took away my worth, my privacy, my energy, my time, my safety, my intimacy, my confidence, my own voice. Until now.” These are

Major Concerns About This Bill: The bill states that all driver’s licenses and identification cards for people on the registry “shall have printed in the color red all information otherwise required to be printed on the front of the license or identification card.” This bill has now passed two committees and is in the Infrastructure Strategies Committee with a scheduled meeting at 2

Major Concerns About This Bill: HB 833 is of great concern as it would require reporting stays of 24 hours or longer at vacation rentals. A vacation rental is defined to be any unit or group of units in a condominium or cooperative or any individually or collectively owned single-family, two-family, three-family, or four-family house or dwelling unit that is

An opinion piece in the April 8, 2023 Miami Herald equates the new voter registration cards proposed in SB 7050 as being like a Monopoly card – the former does not assure you the ability to vote with the latter not giving you the ability to buy real products. Because our state leadership will not take responsibility for the debacle

On Wednesday, April 12, 2023, Senate Bill (CS/SB) 1252 Motor Vehicles is on the Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism and Economic Development’s 8:30 a.m. meeting agenda.  This bill would require “SEXUAL PREDATOR “or “943.0435” to be printed in a distinctive format in the color RED on driver’s licenses or identification cards.   YOU CAN WATCH THE 8:30 MEETING LIVE AT:  

“Brevard County has agreed to settle a federal lawsuit involving the right of convicted sex offenders to attend County Commission meetings.”  (FloridaToday, April 8, 2023) “As part of the settlement, the county agreed to pay damages of $2,500 each to the plaintiffs, plus pay $150,000 for plaintiffs’ attorney fees.” Three plaintiffs plus their attorney’s fees comes to $157,500.  This does