News & Updates

FAC was fortunate to have two members of our Board attend the annual ATSA conference. We were equally fortunate that they returned with detailed notes on the different sessions, so that we have an idea of what’s being talked about among treatment professionals and what new issues and ideas are being exchanged. Below are summaries from each session:   Summary

Contemplating the criminal justice tool’s role in the rehabilitation process amid the wearable tech boom by Rob Walker In the 1960s, Robert Kirkland Schwitzgebel and his twin brother Ralph were psychology students at Harvard, interested in helping troubled, at-risk youth—“juvenile delinquents,” in the jargon of the era. Students of behaviorist and social philosopher B.F. Skinner, the brothers envisioned using modern

Florida’s Sex Offender Registry went from 33,990 people in 2005 to 65,586 in 2015, according to Parents For Megan’s Law. That’s a growth of 93% in the past decade, almost doubling the size of the State’s sex offender registry. The counts have grown, on average, 7.2% year-over-year, which indicates that if Florida remains on the current track, by 2025 we

On January 1, 2016 a new “supplement” to the Virginia Sex Offenders Registry was launched, which added over five thousand names to the list. People convicted of sex offenses on or after July 1, 1980, and before July 1, 1994 are now being added to the registry in a senseless move to beef up their counts by adding unnecessary names

The below is a MUST read – you should share it with everyone you know.   In the recent months there have been a number of articles and news sources about politicians and other prominent people involved in sex crimes.  There have also been a significant number involving police officers. This study will focus in part on the offense rate for

This article from WFTV highlights a registered citizen who was approved by his PO to live in Merritt Island, but the neighbors got up in arms and are now trying to evict him, claiming the residence is too close to a private park. The property, which wasn’t considered a park and even checked out with his PO, according to complainants