Author: FAC Contributor #3

Savor Cinema of Ft. Lauderdale, the location for our community event “A Courageous Conversation About Sex Offenders in Our Communities” has graciously agreed to co-host the event, alongside the Florida Action Committee and the Broward County Criminal Justice Reentry Task Force’s Sex Offender Housing Subcommittee. The event is scheduled for January 27, 2020 at 6:00PM and will take place at

It is understandable and necessary to protect children and the vulnerable, but the data show that our lawmakers, our justice system is failing badly but still moving at lightning speed to permanently punish and lock up anyone whose sexual interest is determined to be abnormal. For many in law enforcement, the intention was to protect children, but our ignorance of

In 2015, the Sacramento Bee wrote that many sex offenders were being killed in California prisons. According to the Associated Press, Male sex offenders made up about 15 percent of the prison population but accounted for nearly 30 percent of homicide victims. Now we have greater insight into how that is able to happen. Five years later the same paper

Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots, is a 78-year-old widower who is currently facing federal charges for allegedly paying a 45-year-old legally licensed masseur in Florida to massage an especially delicate part of his body. Months of undercover police work, hidden cameras and multiple raids revealed Florida law enforcement’s obsession with Asian massage parlors, but no evidence of

These notices are considered harassing, but it’s not punishment.

Whether known to us or not, the intention of the registry was to let us know if a person presents a risk to our families and communities and to enable law enforcement agencies to track, supervise and monitor these registrants. Unfortunately, Connecticut’s registry is not performing these functions. Unlike New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and 13 other states, Connecticut’s sex