Author: FAC Contributor #1

Attorneys for Miami-Dade filed an Answer Brief this week in our Sex Offender Residency Restriction Challenge currently in front of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. A copy of the brief can be found here: https://floridaactioncommittee.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/160523-Appellees-Answer-Brief.pdf Since this forum can be accessed publicly, we’ll reserve comment on the strengths and weaknesses of the government’s argument – we’ll leave that to

If you get a chance, read this article in the International Business Times and think about Florida’s requirement to register vehicles of people who live with registrants… it’ll scare the hell out of you. The article begins by describing a 2013 operation in California nicknamed “Operation Find Ickey”, where a police officer, armed with a license plate scanner, parked himself

It’s such an ugly word. Like “phlegm” or “fetus”. Just the word itself makes people cringe with disgust and that’s the response lawmakers and media want when talking about registered citizens, so “pedophile” is often what they call them. Unfortunately, it’s not accurate at all when describing most sex offenders. Pedophiles (as defined by the fifth Diagnostic and Statistical Manual

It’s not quite Trip Advisor, nor does it provide reviews of hotels or tell you what to see while you are there, but it will tell you if you’re likely to be let into France to visit your dying grandmother or if you shouldn’t bother booking that business trip to Korea. Registrant Travel Action Group (RTAG), an affiliated group that

Not sure what’s more shocking here; Fox4’s willingness to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to shame sex offenders for ratings – or the fact that it’ll take the Lee County Sheriff’s office years to compile records and data it should have at hand.

For Some Prisoners, Finishing Their Sentences Doesn’t Mean They Get Out After serving a year and two months for a probation violation, Landreaux Yantz should have been able to walk out of a New York state prison on June 26, 2015. But officials would not let him leave. “When I laid in my bed every night I was thinking, ‘I’m