Author: FAC Contributor #3

A telling post on Floridians for Freedom provides a list of the different municipalities in Florida who pay Ron Book for lobbying services and how much they pay him. Its no wonder his firm can afford to make so much in political campaign contributions, This list, while incomplete, shows just how much Ron Book collects from FL government agencies The

It sounds like a great program. Homeless military veterans who have been sleeping in their cars and risking arrest for violating a new law making it illegal to sleep in your vehicle in a residential area overnight, can now park their vehicles in the VA parking lot and get a good night’s sleep and access to bathrooms. According to California

Duval County State Attorney Melissa Nelson and Sheriff Mike Williams unveiled a new program to streamline the process for those caught driving with an invalid or suspended driver’s license. The fee for such an offense is $322, but because many people can’t afford to pay it all at once, they wind up jailed. Also, until they can pay, they can’t

From the Miami Herald Miami has officially moved to dissolve a 20-year-old legal agreement that protects the city’s homeless from undue police harassment — a change that would allow the police to arrest the homeless for loitering. The city filed a motion in federal court Wednesday to terminate the Pottinger agreement, a consent decree that prevents police from arresting homeless

The State of Missouri is considering creating a tiered registry that would allow some with less serious offenses to petition for removal. It’s a move that some other states are considering or have implemented. The bill can be read here: https://legiscan.com/MO/text/SB655/2018 UPDATE: The governor did not sign this bill.

FROM SOSEN Jan has agreed to share her story to raise awareness about the inhumane and devastating effects these continuously changing laws have on the former offender, their families, children and society as a whole. Although this is Jan’s story, it is similar to the over 850,0001 men, women and children (as young as 8) who are on a sex