Author: FAC Contributor #1

I am a registered sex offender. Now, before you get convulsions, reach for your pistol, knife, baseball bat, scream obscenities, flip me off, or whatever, hear me out, because for once, it’s not about me, it’s about YOU. Yes, you. You had decided that your marriage or relationship was a bit stale, so you succumbed to the catchy Ashley Madison

Your site is advertised as an advocacy for children focused on preventing sexual abuse.   Yet this, from your own site, tells a very different story: “Most parents and community members believe that they are doing everything they can to protect children from sexual predators but the disturbing reality is that registered sex offenders are obtaining employment and volunteer positions

Last week it was announced that Florida-based Correct Care Recovery Solutions will be operating the new Civil Commitment Center in West Texas. Correct Care Recovery Solutions is a misnomer. it implies that what’s being done is “correct”, that those housed there are receiving “care”, that they are working towards “recovery” and that their program provides a “solution”. Actually, CCRS is

This is a must watch: http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/03/us/dating-app-sex-offender-registry/index.html Hopefully it will be a catalyst for public conversation, which really needs to happen!  

Quantico, Va. — More than 30 years ago, the Federal Bureau of Investigation launched a revolutionary computer system in a bomb shelter two floors beneath the cafeteria of its national academy. Dubbed the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program, or ViCAP, it was a database designed to help catch the nation’s most violent offenders by linking together unsolved crimes. A serial rapist

Hand Up Ministries, an Oklahoma City nonprofit agency that seeks to help sex offenders re-enter society, has faced challenges after a 2012 law added manufactured homes to the list of living quarters where two or more sex offenders could not live together. David Nichols drives through his trailer park on the southeast side of Oklahoma City surveying the seemingly constant