Author: FAC Contributor #1

The first item on the Agenda for today’s Senate Criminal Justice Subcommittee meeting at 4, will be the “Lifetime Monitoring Bill” Gail will be there and plans on testifying. For those who would like to attend as well, the meeting will take place in the Mallory Horne Committee Room, 37 Senate Office Building For those who would like to watch

The Florida Legislative Sites; myfloridahouse.gov and flsenate.gov can offer some useful public information on the status of Bills. Since those affecting registrants are on our radar, we wanted to update our members on some of the considerations that are going on as the bill progresses. Aside from being able to pull the Bill text itself and read the redlined revisions,

Here’s the fact: A 32 year old teacher in Hahnville, LA has sex with their 16 year old student. Ordinarily this person would get 20 years in prison and probably some extra time because they were in a position of authority. Ordinarily the prison sentence would be followed by a harsh life sentence on the registry. In this case, however,

The following report came out yesterday on WUFT news. Levy County Florida has decided to completely ban sex offenders from school (parents or not) events and has posted notices on the properties. The article is neither good nor bad, but it highlights several things which we will comment on inline and IN CAPS.       Levy County Schools Warn

Broward County is looking to further regulate taxi and limo drivers. The Sun Sentinel reports today that a number of taxi drivers have criminal and driving records which should preclude them from working as a taxi driver or chauffeur. The story cites a number of different individuals who have been convicted of certain offenses and suggests they should not be

Last week we posted about a bill concerning privacy rights and drones. To get their bill to pass, one legislator suggested that sex offenders might use drones to leer at children. While this really happened, the post was intended to be satirical, but at the same time a serious illustration of how legislators are using the “sex offender” hysteria to