Upcoming FAC Events

Here are a few opportunities to connect this week. All times are Eastern.

• Monday, October 5, 8:00–9:30 p.m. — Member Support Call.
  Join for conversation, encouragement, and sharing.
  Join by Zoom,
  or call 305-224-1968 and enter meeting ID 914 1527 3144.
• Thursday, October 8, 8:00–9:00 p.m. — New Member Orientation.
  Learn more about FAC and getting involved. Dial 319-527-3487.
• Saturday, October 10, 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. — Family Support Group.
  This invitation-only Zoom group is for FAC members who are non-registered family members with loved ones on the registry.
  Contact membership@floridaactioncommittee.org
  or 833-273-7325, Option 1, to participate.
• Saturday, October 10, 3:00–5:00 p.m. — Duval County Meet & Greet.
  RSVP for directions and confirmation at
  Fac.Duval@gmail.com,
  or call or text 904-300-0109.
  Please note the revised 3:00 p.m. start time.

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Building a Business and Helping Others

In an August 5 interview published by The (M)Other List, a Texas man identified as BC describes starting a paralegal business after his release from prison. He is living on the registry and has faced the housing, supervision, and financial challenges that come with trying to get established again.

He also describes getting married, building his business, and creating work for others. According to BC, most of his employees are formerly incarcerated or have an incarcerated family member. His wife, a licensed private investigator, works alongside him.

BC says his firm helps people prepare documents and pursue requests involving supervision. He also mentors other men, encouraging honesty and accountability when they have difficult conversations.

There is encouragement in seeing someone rebuild his own life while helping others find their footing.

Read BC’s interview

California: More People Granted Registry Relief

ACSOL’s September 17 report on the California Sex Offender Management Board meeting showed 474 additional petitions granted for removal from the registry since the May 21 report.

The cumulative number of granted petitions rose from 10,583 to 11,057. That increase covers roughly four months, rather than September alone.

For the people granted relief, this is a change they can carry into their everyday lives. It is encouraging to see an established path to removal producing results.

Read ACSOL’s report

Minnesota: A Court Recognizes a Constitutional Limit

On August 19, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled in Siegel v. Evans that requiring Chad Siegel to register under the circumstances of his case violated due process under the Minnesota Constitution.

A trial judge had acquitted Siegel of kidnapping because the evidence was insufficient. A jury convicted him of assault, which independently did not require registration. The state nevertheless imposed registration based on the kidnapping charges and related assault conviction.

The Supreme Court rejected that application of the law. The ruling specifically addressed a trial judge’s judgment of acquittal. It did not decide every situation involving dismissed charges or jury acquittals.

The case was returned for consideration of a filing-deadline issue, so we cannot report that Siegel has been removed from the registry. What we can recognize is a meaningful constitutional victory in his challenge.

Read the Minnesota Supreme Court decision

Reads from the Past Week

If you missed these on FAC’s website, here are three articles worth catching up on:

• FAC Weekly Update: FAC v. Glass Trial Date Set and Amended Complaint FiledPosted September 29

  The update reported a November 8, 2027 trial date and an amended complaint. Members stepped forward with hundreds of declarations in under a week, and FAC reported welcoming more than 80 new members during September. The case is ongoing, and those experiences help bring the effects of these laws before the court.

• Media Tuesday: After the Call, Union County & FAC v. GlassPosted September 29

  After the Call — Part One looks at scam calls targeting registrants and their families, including the fear that can remain after a call ends. Consider sharing the video with someone who could benefit from knowing the warning signs.

• FDLE Registry Enforcement History Under Mark Glass and Its Continued BurdensPosted October 2

  This article brings together public records on enforcement, changing requirements, and the burdens carried by registrants and families. The public deserves enough information to look beyond an arrest announcement and understand what happened, how the case ended, and what the system accomplished.

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Sign and Share the Human Rights Petition

9,665 verified signatures

Signature total as of October 3, 2026. The count continues to change.

FAC’s petition asks the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to investigate public sex-offender registration in the United States and take appropriate action on the human rights concerns it raises.

Just 335 more signatures would bring the petition to 10,000. Already signed? Share it with someone who has not. Tell them why dignity, family, and the opportunity to rebuild matter to you.

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A Thought for the Week

“With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.”

— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,
“I Have a Dream”,
delivered at the March on Washington, August 28, 1963.

OPPAGA’s Statewide Registration-Violation Arrests

All Florida agencies are included. These are annual arrest events, not a count of different people or arrests by FDLE alone. Glass began as acting commissioner on May 1, 2022; the 2022 figure includes months before he took over.

Before looking at operations during Glass’s tenure, it helps to see the longer statewide history. OPPAGA’s analysis of FDLE data shows about 38% growth in registration-violation arrest events from 2014 to 2023, with fluctuations between years. Much of that period predates Glass. The arrest figures describe the system he inherited and enforced, but they cannot show whether an arrest prevented harm or what a family experienced afterward. OPPAGA also reports aggregate convictions; those findings belong in the conversation, while the outcome of each operation and its effect on safety still need to be explained. A lower conviction rate does not, by itself, establish that arrests were wrongful.

◆ The Enforcement Record During Glass’s Tenure

The statewide figures provide context; the announcements below show how enforcement was carried out and described during Glass’s tenure. Every entry links to its source. Some releases combine registration charges, probation violations and other crimes. Some include repeat arrests or warrants served on people already in custody. Those details can disappear in a headline, even though they change what the arrest count means. The figures remain separate because charges differ and cases can overlap; adding them together would produce a misleading total. These mixed announcements do not establish a total of arrests involving only registration violations.

This history also needs to be clear about responsibility. Glass led FDLE, which participated in many of these operations. Sheriffs and municipal police have separate authority, while FDLE’s statewide registry, information sharing and joint operations connect their enforcement activities. The tables identify reported FDLE involvement and distinguish operations led by other agencies, so readers can see who carried out the enforcement and who was responsible for the decisions.

The entries use operation dates where available and announcement dates otherwise. Updated totals replace earlier figures, and overlapping components are identified. This is the public record located for the article, including follow-ups. It does not capture every arrest in Florida.

The located public record becomes fuller in the later years. 2026 already matches the 2025 entry count in these tables. There are more announcements for readers to examine, but an announcement count is not a measure of statewide enforcement growth. Coverage, components and announcement practices differ. The question remains what these operations achieved and what their consequences were for the people involved.

Entries include operation components and follow-ups. Coverage and announcement dates differ; 2022 is a partial tenure record. These counts do not measure statewide growth. Bad Apple began before Glass took office; its full count cannot be attributed to his tenure.

How the Law Changed During Glass’s Tenure

The enforcement history is also a history of changing law. During Glass’s tenure, legislators approved measures affecting registration, designation, supervision and related screening. Each change could add to what registrants and people legally designated as sexual predators had to understand alongside existing deadlines. The official records below explain substantive changes, juvenile provisions and technical amendments, and identify the laws enacted during his tenure. Lawmakers enacted them; FDLE and other agencies carried out their assigned duties.

The Felony Warnings Signed at the Registration Office

At the registration office, that legal history becomes a set of duties people are asked to acknowledge and sign. The acknowledgment reviewed here lists 18 state felony-warning categories: 16 third-degree warnings and two second-degree warnings, plus a separate federal warning. Several categories use the same statutory penalty provision. Signing the paperwork is one moment; remembering the duties through moves, work changes, family emergencies and travel continues afterward. The dropdown preserves each warning and the history of the laws behind it.

The Laws Behind the Continuing Burden

Those warnings are part of a larger framework that continues beyond any commissioner’s tenure. Registration, required identification, restrictions on where a person may live or go, and supervision conditions can all affect a household. The table below identifies the Florida laws behind those requirements and separates a person’s obligations from an agency’s duties. Together, they explain the legal structure behind the operations and the burdens described by families.

An ID Card, a Lost Job, a Family Waiting

The continued burden is easier to understand when the charge is explained. Florida’s registration statute makes failures involving residences, employment, vehicles, online identifiers and required identification criminal offenses. These are matters that can change as people work, move or care for a family. A registration offense is a new criminal allegation, but the charge itself does not allege a new sexual act.

In an April 2025 Hernando Sun report, a 63-year-old went to the registration office to report a move from Pasco County to Hernando County and a transient residence. He was arrested for failing to obtain the required Florida-issued license or ID. He said he knew the requirement but could not afford the fee. The reported April charge involved identification, not a new sexual offense. He arrived to report a change and left under arrest. His account raises a question that belongs alongside the arrest count: what happens when a person knows the rule but cannot afford what it requires? Whether help with the fee would have changed the outcome is not established by the report.

An ID card is one example. Another Hernando report describes a three-year sentence involving an unreported social-media account and job termination. A Flagler follow-up describes an evicted renter arrested when he arrived to update his registration; officials alleged the update was overdue. Losing a job or a home can leave a household struggling to get through the next day. These cases show why readers need the circumstances behind a reporting charge, as well as the headline.

Helping a child with a car can also bring reporting consequences. In a member account published by FAC on April 24, 2026, a parent described co-signing an auto loan with their son. Both names were on the title and registration, but the parent said the son was the only driver and kept the car at his own home. The writer also described failing to report a replacement license plate on a different, already-reported vehicle. The account reported four felony charges involving failure to report and providing false information, 2.5 days in jail and a $12,500 bond. The writer was awaiting trial when the account was published; it does not establish the eventual court outcome. These details come from the member’s own account. Behind the vehicle updates is a family trying to arrange transportation, then facing days of uncertainty and a criminal case.

A change in housing or work can also become the subject of an arrest. In its March 30, 2026 Operation Low Tide announcement, FDLE reported that two registrants were arrested and booked into the Monroe County Jail. The listed charges included failures to report residence and employment changes, along with other registration-compliance charges. The announcement does not describe a new sexual offense in those two arrests. A new home or job can be a step toward stability. The release does not tell us what was happening in these individuals’ lives. It does tell us the reporting charges, and those details deserve the same attention as the arrest count.

How many mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, spouses, children and caregivers were affected by enforcement during these years? The public reports do not count them. When a paycheck stops, the rent still comes due. When a loved one is jailed, someone must care for the children, find a lawyer, gather paperwork and try to understand what happens next. Work, housing and care arrangements can be disrupted at the same time. Caregivers, lawyers and supporters may take on hearings, deadlines and legal bills while trying to keep a household together. Those consequences can outlast the operation and the headline.

When failure to register involves no allegation of a new sexual crime, could the person be trying to rebuild? Could they be looking for a lawful home, holding onto a job or trying to correct an overdue update? A reporting charge alone cannot answer those questions. This enforcement history needs room for the person’s circumstances and their effort to move forward. So does any discussion of the burdens that remain.

What Did These Years of Enforcement Achieve?

“FDLE will continue to work alongside our law enforcement partners to help keep our communities safe.”

— Mark Glass, in the Endgame announcement

The arrest figures, the legal duties and the family experiences all lead back to Glass’s promise of safety. People want their children, loved ones and neighbors protected from harm. They deserve to know which efforts work. Investigating allegations of new sexual harm matters, as does knowing how charges ended and whether reporting discrepancies were corrected. An arrest count cannot establish that an assault was prevented, a charge was sustained or a family became safer. Understanding this history requires outcomes the public can assess and evidence of what helped.

Accuracy Matters for the Agencies, Too

OPPAGA’s account of a 2022 FBI audit describes programming and record-validation problems in the registry system. It also records FDLE’s corrections: the validation error was corrected before the audit concluded, programming changes were completed in June 2023, and additional FCIC/NCIC flag updates took effect in December 2023.

The corrections are part of the history as well. Reliable records matter to everyone affected by the system. When a missed update can bring a felony charge, the records used to enforce that duty deserve scrutiny, too. The audit findings do not establish that a particular person was wrongly arrested.

The public releases also show that a discrepancy did not always end in arrest. FDLE’s June 4, 2026 Spring Cleaning report records 12 registrants brought back into compliance after discrepancies were found and five arrests for registration violations. One arrested person also faced a marijuana-possession charge. The release does not explain what determined correction rather than custody, or whether an ID card, notice or correction of information could have changed another outcome. The public deserves to know how those decisions were made. For a person and their family, the decision can mean getting home that evening or beginning a criminal case.

The Public Deserves Answers

The public deserves clear, honest answers, and lawmakers need accurate information to make informed decisions about the laws and the people affected by them.

“Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.”

— Bryan Stevenson

HERNANDO COUNTY • MEDIA BUZZ & COURT WATCH

AI imagery: a Florida sentence and the constitutional lines courts draw

The Hernando Sun reports an eight-year prison sentence, followed by three years of probation with sex-offender conditions. Prosecutors list eight generated-child-pornography possession convictions, alongside animal-imagery offenses, identity fraud, organized fraud, and methamphetamine possession. Their account describes online sales and sharing. The eight-year sentence covers a case with multiple convictions; it should not be described as punishment solely for privately possessing AI images.

A useful comparison is United States v. Anderegg, decided August 25, 2026, by the Seventh Circuit. That court affirmed dismissal of one federal possession count involving obscene, entirely virtual images kept at home. The government conceded those images depicted no actual child and could not be linked to one. Production, distribution, and transfer-to-a-minor charges remained intact.

What differs in the laws?

Timing matters: Florida enacted § 827.072 effective July 1, 2024, initially making possession and intentional creation third-degree felonies. The Hernando arrest was in 2024; the applicable offense-date statute and sentencing documents must be checked before applying today’s penalties to that case.

Where does the Supreme Court fit?

The Seventh Circuit applied existing U.S. Supreme Court precedent. Stanley v. Georgia (1969) protects mere private possession of obscenity at home. Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition (2002) rejected an overbroad federal ban reaching virtual depictions that were neither obscene nor produced using actual children. Osborne v. Ohio (1990) permits prohibiting possession of sexual-abuse images produced using real children. These distinctions concern both how an image was made and what conduct is charged.

Judicial reach: Florida’s Fifth Judicial Circuit is a state trial-court circuit. Florida falls within the federal Eleventh Circuit. Anderegg can supply persuasive reasoning here, but the Seventh Circuit does not bind Florida courts; U.S. Supreme Court constitutional precedent does. The Anderegg ruling itself did not strike down Florida’s law or reverse the Hernando convictions.

Hernando Sun report → ·
State Attorney’s account →
Read Anderegg (Seventh Circuit opinion) → ·
Florida’s current statute →
Florida’s 2024 enactment → ·
Stanley → ·
Ashcroft → ·
Osborne → ·
Eleventh Circuit jurisdiction →

INDIANA • OCTOBER 1 REPORT

Weekly release lists—and a proposal to restrict relocation assistance

Marion County’s sheriff in Indianapolis has announced weekly public lists of convicted sex and violent offenders released from the Indiana Department of Correction into the county. According to WIBC’s October 1 report, the lists will identify release dates, underlying convictions, and whether individuals were sentenced locally or moved from another jurisdiction.

The lists will supplement the existing registry and be shared through social media. The sheriff is also urging lawmakers to restrict state assistance programs from helping released individuals relocate outside the county where they were convicted.

These are two different developments: the weekly publication initiative has been announced; the restriction on relocation assistance is a legislative proposal, not an enacted law. The proposal concerns state-supported relocation, rather than a general prohibition on choosing where to move.

Read the October 1 WIBC report →

NATIONAL MEDIA WATCH • OCTOBER 1

USA TODAY: Larry Nassar removed from Michigan’s registry

USA TODAY reports that former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar has been removed from Michigan’s public sex-offender registry following the state Supreme Court’s September 9 ruling. More than 20,000 people were removed after the court barred retroactive application of the 2021 registration law to qualifying offenses committed before the 2011 amendments.

Registry removal does not erase Nassar’s convictions or change his prison sentences. He remains incarcerated. The ruling addresses the constitutional limits on applying later registration requirements to earlier conduct.

For readers seeing this headline, that distinction matters. Accountability for sexual abuse and constitutional limits on punishment can both be explained accurately, without minimizing the harm suffered by survivors.

Read Mitchell Northam’s USA TODAY report, republished by AOL →
Read the September 9 Michigan Supreme Court order →

ARKANSAS • OCTOBER 1 REPORT

22 arrests—but what were the allegations?

Craighead County’s Operation Sentinel contacted 85 people on the registry and resulted in 22 arrests. The three-day operation began September 22.

The latest report describes two cases involving an alleged unreported location change and alleged failures to report email addresses, a TikTok account, and a business. These are reporting allegations; the article does not describe a new sexual-offense charge for either of those two individuals.

That distinction belongs in the coverage. These examples also do not establish the charge breakdown for all 22 arrests.

Read the October 1 Jonesboro Right Now report →

NEVADA • SEPTEMBER 30 RELEASE

“Zero tolerance” for registration violations

Lyon County reported three September 29 arrests involving alleged failures to update registration information or complete a required verification. One person also faced reckless-driving and license charges.

The sheriff’s release lists no new sexual-offense charges for these three arrests. It describes enforcement under a zero-tolerance policy adopted in July.

For members following these operations, the question remains: what was the actual alleged violation, and how is it being presented to the public?

Read the release published by Carson Now →

COURT WATCH • EARLIER SEPTEMBER ITEM

Does forgetting mean “knowingly” failing to register?

The Supreme Court of Maryland heard Andre Hammond v. State on September 4. The questions include whether forgetting can be a defense to knowingly failing to register, and whether a conviction can stand after a trial court finds that the person forgot.

This is a case to follow, not an announced victory. No subsequent ruling has been verified for this wrap-up. The issue concerns Maryland law and should not be treated as a change to Florida’s requirements.

Read the court’s description of the issues →

SCAM WATCH • CANADA

Pay—or face registry placement and public exposure?

A September 29 report from Prince Edward Island describes scam emails accusing recipients of online child sexual abuse. The messages threaten registry placement and television exposure unless the recipient pays a supposed fine.

The warning shows how fear of the registry can become a tool for financial exploitation. An alarming message deserves independent verification, not an immediate payment made under pressure.

Read the RCMP scam-warning coverage →

THE PUSH TO 10,000

U.N. Petition

9,659

Verified signatures • Only 341 to reach 10,000

Thank you to everyone who has signed and shared. FAC’s petition asks the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to investigate public sex-offender registration in the United States and its effects on individuals and families.

Already signed? Share it with someone new. Add a comment explaining why this matters to you. Personal stories help others understand the people behind the numbers.

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Signature count updated October 2, 2026.

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