Author: FAC Contributor #1

Below is a letter sent on behalf of the Florida Action Committee by our president, Gail Colletta to WPTV, a local Palm Beach County station. The letter asks why the station keeps spewing out unbalanced, sensationalized stories when it comes to sex offender issues. Let’s see if they have the courage to respond.   WPTV Reporters and Producers,   As

Do Miami-Dade politicians really care about children or are they more about pandering to voters and punishing sex offenders? We are about to find out… According to Mothers Against Drunk Driving; in 2011, 226 children were killed in drunk driving crashes, teen alcohol use kills about 4,700 people each year and about one-third of all drivers arrested or convicted of

Source   By Andy Reid, Sun Sentinel7:02 p.m. EDT, July 22, 2014 The threat of a court fight prompted Palm Beach County Tuesday to ease restrictions on where convicted sexual offenders can live. The county had been prohibiting sexual offenders from living within 2,500 feet of schools, school bus stops, day care facilities, parks, playgrounds and other places children regularly

America’s prisons are broken. Just ask John Oliver and several puppets.   Click here to view  

Over one year after the Palm Beach County Sex Offender Management Board called the residency restrictions there “pointless”, the county commissioners listened and changed a law that barred registered sex offenders from living 2500 feet from schools, parks, etc. to something more reasonable; 1000 feet and in line with the State’s requirement. The previous restrictions simply left registrants with barely

Source   For sex offenders, at least. One bizarre case reveals the need to reform how we regulate convicted offenders Jenny Kutner Registering as a sex offender automatically imposes scores of restrictions on convicts’ lives, which is essentially why most people favor them. Restrictions barring sex offenders from living within a certain distance of schools or playgrounds might make communities