With Unity Comes Change
If you’ve been an avid follower of the Florida Action Committee forum, you’ve probably noticed that we’ve been receiving more comments from trolls, vigilantes or people simply posting nasty comments.This is likely the result of some of the public awareness campaigns we have been running over the last month or so. As previously announced, FAC has been airing our short-form
Read moreAn Erath County jury of seven men and five women were seated on Monday in the trial of Charles Austin Broyles, a suspect unofficially dubbed the “vigilante shooter.” Broyles is being tried for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in connection with shooting a registered sex offender in the face in December 2023. According to the arrest affidavit, Broyles was
Read moreRobert Hargis (DOB 2/10/1971) served as the Sex Offender Registry Compliance Officer for the Marion County Sherriff’s office and was responsible for obtaining the required signatures from registered offenders to confirm legal compliance. Through the course of the investigation agents determined several of the signatures on sex offender documents were falsified. On Tuesday, the Marion County Grand Jury returned a
Read morePolice are warning the public that sharing information from the local sex offenders registry website can result in a three-year prison sentence. Police legal officer Zaheer Ali issued the warning while speaking at the police’s weekly media briefing on May 27. He added the site, which currently has just 36 people listed, should be used only for the sensitization of
Read moreOklahoma’s law against child sex predators just got tougher. Governor Stitt signed Senate Bill 599, so now, if anyone’s found guilty of committing lewd acts with a child under 14, they could face the death penalty or life in prison without parole. SOURCE
Read moreMaking Jamaica’s sex offender registry public could do more harm than good, warns human rights activist Carla Gullotta. Various incidents, including the sexual assault of two sisters in Old Harbour, St Catherine, by a man who had served time in prison for a previous sexual offence, has once again sparked calls for greater transparency and public access to the registry.
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