News & Updates

Wishing you and yours a healthy, happy and joyous holiday. Wishing all of us success in our efforts in 2017! Sincerely, The Florida Action Committee

MASON CITY, Iowa – More sex offenders could soon be off of the streets thanks to a new project that will help identify them. [FAC COMMENT: WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? “OFF THE STREETS”? IF THEY ARE NOT IN JAIL, THEY PRESUMABLY HAVE COMPLETED THEIR SENTENCES. WHY WOULD THEY NEED TO BE OFF THE STREETS?] The Iowa Department of Public Safety

As a criminal justice advocate, I am strongly in favor of bills that scale back harsh and overly punitive laws. Knowing how difficult it is for a “felon” to find a job and housing, it was exciting to read about California’s Proposition 64 that would allow people convicted of certain drug felonies for possession, transportation or cultivation of marijuana to petition

In Bristol, England, a man who killed another for being a sex offender only got 7 years in Prison. Matthew Hill followed the victim into the park, starting calling him a “wrong’un”, “paedo” and “nonce”, then punched him, leaving him dead before fleeing. Incredibly light sentence for murder, don’t you think?

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd loves the spotlight. He’s most famous for his press conferences where he features a poster-board containing the pictures of suspects arrested in one of his “stings”. He’s also famous for coming up with creative names for them. This one; “Operation Not So Silent Night”. Nifty, right? A play on the holiday season. Except the only

A new study looks at the residential patterns of registered sex offenders 15 years after arrest. The issue: Numerous state and local governments have adopted policies restricting where registered sex offenders can live. Often, they are prohibited from living within a certain distance of a school, daycare center, park or other place where children gather. In some parts of the country,