News & Updates

FAC wants to recognize the efforts of Florida Cares Charity, and their organizer Denise Rock.  After months of preparation, buses carrying FL Cares supporters rolled into Tallahassee last week for Justice Reform Lobby Day.   With the support of Florida House Representative Dianne Hart (District 61-Hillsbourough) the power of their voices were heard long before this Lobby Day.  They have

A cursory glance at the Michigan Sex Offender Registry may reveal that someone who’s been convicted of a sex crime lives near you. Now what? Advocates for reforming the registry say this publicly available information not only doesn’t make communities safer, it actually has the potential to make them more dangerous. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel recently issued a legal

On the same day (2/4/2020) we updated the legislative update page, HB 1055 was changed (gutted) to remove all language offering relief for out-of-state “sex offenders” hoping to be removed from Florida’s registry.This action was taken on 2/3/2020 by the Criminal Justice Subcommittee and approved in a 12-0 vote on their committee substituted bill. http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1055/?Tab=BillHistory The language still survives in the senate

FAC Members and any person required to register as a sex offender in Florida: BEWARE OF SCAMS. We continue to get dozens of reports from people who have been targeted by scammers trying to extort them for money, pretending to be law enforcement officers. PLEASE DO NOT fall for these scams. If you get a call from “a detective” telling

In 2015, he was released on parole. As part of the conditions of his release, he had to register as a sex offender. He got a job at a restaurant but was quickly fired after a police officer threatened to tell people a sex offender worked there. And in a sex offender therapy program he had to take, he refused

After the California Supreme Court declared unconstitutional municipal residency restrictions for persons on the registry who are not on probation, many repealed theirs. San Diego, on the other hand, dug in their heels and refused repeal theirs. The Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws’ Janice Bellucci warned them she would sue unless they changed their unenforceable residency restriction. Their own