Author: FAC Contributor #1

Over the last four years, Lauren’s Kids, a non-profit founded by the daughter of top Tallahassee lobbyist Ron Book, has become one the Legislature’s favorite charities, raking in nearly $7 million in taxpayer funds. If and when legislators reconvene to pass a budget, that total is slated to rise to $10.8 million. The mission of Lauren’s Kids is to raise

Holy COW!!! 10 years for failing to register. That’s a lot of time for a violation of a “Civil”, “Non-Punitive” law, isn’t it? So I dug a bit deeper to see exactly what his offense was, how long ago it happened and how much time he got for the underlying crime to see how the time he’s facing for this

A trip to the library landed James Elder in jail. In 2011, authorities caught Elder with explicit photographs of 15-year-old girls on his computer. He served 15 months in state prison and, after his release last year, became homeless. Last December the 46-year-old visited the Chapel Hill Public Library to job hunt on one of its free computers, he says.

This week’s conviction of a Florida couple who allegedly had sex on the beach has been getting some national attention. The good news is the attention it’s getting has come in the form of outrage. Outrage at the over criminalization and over-punishment of “sex offenses” in our State. Granted, what this couple was doing was inappropriate, but COME ON; fifteen

[FAC COMMENT: WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH THESE HEADLINES? DO REPORTERS THINK ALL THEY NEED TO DO IS PUT THE PHRASE ‘SEX OFFENDER’ IN THE HEADLINE AND THEY WILL GENERATE INTEREST EVEN IF IT’S A NON-STORY?] DUVAL COUNTY, Fla. — A wanted sexual offender was in jail Tuesday morning in Duval County. [FAC COMMENT: SO THAT’S HOW THIS STORY