State Attorney Andrew Warren will chair the Florida Democratic Party’s new Safety and Justice Task Force with a goal of improving safety for Floridians while respecting individuals’ rights.  This task force will also be looking at ways to increase transparency and cut down waste.

Florida Action Committee does not take a stand on politics but would like to see all political groups come together in bringing about much needed criminal justice reform in the state of Florida.  We do not support any political candidate, but we do want to make sure that any task force formed to bring about criminal justice reform has the correct data on people who are forced to register:  the re-offense rate, the punitiveness of the registry, the cost ineffectiveness of compliance checks, where to look for future sex offenses, etc.  If this task force uses research-based facts, then registrants should be included in this reform, and we as members of FAC need to make sure that this task force is aware of the research.

We need to organize as a group on this matter and give it all we can.  That means many contacts by many FAC members, sharing anything you have on why the registry is punitive and cost ineffective.  Tell your own story or share some of the research or do both, but not all in the same letter.  Make sure your letters are courteous as research shows that if you become the least bit aggressive, it completely turns off the reader, and then you have accomplished nothing, except make them less likely to listen to us.

It is best if your letters are short – less than a page.  You can send the people on this task force many different, short letters, each containing only one or two main points.

Please refrain from mentioning Florida Action Committee in your communications with the task force members.  Let your letters be from you as a single, but important, Florida citizen.  Florida Action Committee will be contacting the task force members.

For those who are in need of research sources, some can be found at our website, floridaactioncommittee.org.  On the Media dropdown box, click on Media.  Then click on “Articles and Studies Containing Research”.  We will be continuing to update our research at the FAC website on the Media page.  Feel free to send research to share with others at [email protected].

Additional research at the NARSOL website can be found at narsol.org.  Click on Resources on the top bar.  At the top of the dropdown box, click on NARSOL Resources Site.  On the red bar, click on Research.

The results of this task force are due some time during the summer of 2022, so we have plenty of time to share the information and stories with this group.  It would be so powerful if hundreds of us were to do so.  With numbers like that, they would not be able to ignore us.

For those of you who will be closely following the formation of this task force, please notify us at [email protected] when you learn of anything new.  You can also leave a message at 833-273-7325.

Currently, the only person appointed to this task force is State Attorney Andrew Warren, where letters can be sent to:

The Honorable Andrew Warren

State Attorney for the 13th Circuit of Florida

419 Pierce St

Tampa, FL 33602

Once the other members of this task force have been selected, their contact information will be posted for members to use.

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