News & Updates

After learning about the termination of Clarence Collins, who had worked for The Pride Center (an LGBTQ community center in Florida) for fifteen years as a janitor, FAC was compelled to contact the center. Below is a copy of the letter. Letter To The Pride Center 04102018

The comments on a Go Fund Me page tell a completely different story about a man than the article in the Miami Herald. Clarence Collins had worked as a Janitor at the Pride Center in Wilton Manors, Florida, an LGBTQ community center that has been around for 25 years, this year. Clarence had worked for them for fifteen of those

Several members of the Florida Action Committee participated in the Florida Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers conference, held in Orlando last week. The conference, at which FAC had a table and circulated materials and resources, “was a valuable event as we network and continue to promote and establish ourselves as a partner in the reentry process.” said Gail

Last August, a US District Court Judge found the Colorado Sex Offender Registration Act violated the cruel and unusual punishment clause of the Eighth Amendment. Colorado’s Attorney General, Cynthia Coffman, appealed the decision to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. Last week, attorneys general for the States of Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming filed an Amicus Brief in

Both the boys admit they did it. Horsing around, two New Jersey 14-year-olds pulled down their pants and sat on the faces of two 12-year-old boys. As one of them later explained, “I thought it was funny and I was trying to get my friends to laugh.” For that act, he and his buddy are on the sex offender registry

The Eleventh Circuit Federal Appellate Court (our circuit), reversed the conviction of a man who had been charged (and convicted) of distribution of child pornography, but upheld his possession count. The Defendant had been viewing child pornography he had downloaded from a peer-to-peer network, for a period of approximately eleven months before agents raided his home and confiscated his computer.