Author: FAC Contributor #4

Here is the Press Release FAC is in the News once again, this time in the global spotlight.  We give special thanks to attorney David Peery of Miami Coalition to Advance Racial Equality (MCARE)  for connecting FAC to the Human Rights Task Force that organized the visit, presentations, and meetings in Geneva Switzerland last week. Thank you to everyone who

Today, our FAC President Gail Colletta addressed the United Nations Human Rights Committee in Geneva Switzerland to call out the United States’ failure to address the inhumane Registry scheme and specifically the practice of allowing states to create Sex Offender Residency Restrictions (SORRs).  Gail had only two-minutes to define the problem and ask the UN to hold the United States accountable

This thoroughly researched article from the The Appeal entitled HOW FLORIDA’S SLUGGISH VOTER REGISTRATION PROCESS SENT EX-PRISONERS BACK TO JAIL highlights the duplicity of the State of Florida when it publicly arrested select felons who voted, but did not qualify to have their voting right restored.  According to this research, the individuals only voted after being confirmed by the State or local

I was reading reviews of a new book by Nick Cave entitled Faith, Hope and Carnage.  The reviews included quotes from the book that made me stop to think.  “Hope is optimism with a broken heart” and “This is how I chose to live my life – in uncertainty.”   I recalled something I wrote to myself a few months