News & Updates

The Florida Action Committee website, floridaactioncommittee.org, has become a tremendous resource to disseminate news and information to our members. Our growth, in both content and users, has been exponential during the past couple of years. Part of our mission is to educate the public, and in connection with that mission, we would like to get our stories, re-posted articles, research

According to the U.S. Supreme Court, locking up sex offenders after they have completed their sentences is not punishment, and neither is branding them as dangerous outcasts for the rest of their lives. Two cases the Court could soon agree to hear give it an opportunity to reconsider, or at least qualify, those counterintuitive conclusions. Karsjens v. Piper is a

A new article by Danielle Baily of the University of Texas explores the concept of “disenfranchised grief” in sex offender significant others. As the abstract explains; “the public stigma of the label and the collateral consequences that occur as a result of that label, it is possible that sex offender significant others experience a psychosocial loss”. You can read the

Former NY Congressman Anthony Weiner was sentenced to 21 months in Federal Prison for sexting a 15 year old and soliciting explicit images from her. He will be forced to register as a sex offender and complete 3 years of sex offender supervised release, including treatment. The feedback we have received so far was that his sentence was light, compared

200 residents of the Special Commitment Center on McNeil Island, the State of Washington’s civil commitment center (where sex offenders are detained indefinitely) are plaintiffs in a Federal lawsuit over the quality of the water at the center. The suit was originally brought in 2014 after one registrant contended the water had floating debris and caused severe stomach cramps, vomiting

Starting today, the US Supreme Court will be considering a list of cases that have requested review by the highest court in the country. Among them are two cases relevant to sex offender issues; Karsjens v. Piper.  This is a class challenge to Minnesota’s controversial civil commitment regime. Snyder v. Doe. The State of Michigan filed a petition seeking review