Author: FAC Contributor #1

This past Friday, Federal Prosecutors announced that former House Speaker Dennis Hastert sexually abused at least four boys when he coached wrestling at a high school in Illinois. As shocking as the allegations that appeared in the prosecutor’s sentencing memorandum was the prosecutions’ request. Six months in prison! Although the current case concerns $3.5 million in hush money the speaker

More than a dozen people a day walk into the Orange County Sheriff’s Office and register as sex offenders. The county is home to more than 2,200 of them. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office has a dozen people on staff — including four detectives – who do nothing but register and track sex offenders, who are required by law to

With the goal of keeping tabs on sex offenders, the state of Illinois has veered way off course. Its offender registration statute requires individuals to report every nook and cranny of their online activities to law enforcement—or face jail time. Every Internet site they visit, every online retailer account they create, and every news story comment they post must be

Although it wasn’t an article about sex offenders per-se, FAC President Gail Colletta contributed a quote to a Naples Daily News article about housing for ex-felons. “‘Sorry, we don’t rent to felons’ — we get that excuse all the time,” said Colletta, who now heads a Lake Monroe, Florida-based advocacy group for sex offenders called the Florida Action Committee. But

TALLAHASSEE, FL (WTXL) — The group behind the sex offender rehabilitation program at Good Samaritan Network on Woodville Highway is speaking out about the program. Andy Messer, the Administrator for the Good Samaritan Network says that they currently have 16 people living at the Woodville Highway facility. Messer says that Good Samaritan Network has been operating since 2007 and in

As mentioned in a prior post; the ACLU filed it’s Appellate Brief on behalf of FAC and the 200+ registered citizens living alongside the railroad tracks at the corner of 79th Street and NW 36th Avenue in Miami. Derek Logue of OnceFallen.com, who had traveled to Florida last week and visited the encampment initiated a post to which FAC replied.