News & Updates

Indiewire.com posted the following review of “Pervert Park” a documentary on the lives and conditions of individuals living at Florida Justice Transitions, a community for sex offenders. To view the trailer for the documentary, visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSBupK2sd60 “Pervert Park” Do sex offenders get a bad rap? Would you want a sex offender as a neighbor, around your children? These questions are

Eric Goldman calls our attention to a rather astounding story out of Florida, involving how various Florida police departments are engaging in what appears to be basically sham “sting” operations online to arrest and shame men as child sexual predators, then steal their cars (sometimes offering to sell them back), and then doing everything possible to hide the records. The

The United States leads the world in the number of people the country puts behind bars. Although it only has 5% of the world’s population, the United States has 25% of the world’s prison population. The United States is the world’s biggest jailer. Put another way, one in 99 adults is living behind bars in the United States, and one in

Our nation loves stories about sex. You throw “sex” into a headline and you’re guaranteed readership. FAC’s legislative committee keeps track of Bills that concern sex offenders and generally does a really good job of staying on top of what’s going on in Tallahassee so we can endorse Bills that improve public safety and oppose ones that don’t. That is

The following is a well referenced article on the lottery debate, which is republished here. Most reading this article would agree that it’s absurd to create laws restricting lottery winnings. What’s next? inheritances? lawsuit settlements? stock market gains? It seems like the argument is not that a former offender should not be allowed to benefit from a state-run lottery that

News 4 Jacksonville, known for extensively reporting on anything sex offender related, put out the following story yesterday which highlighted some of the problems with the “Lifetime Monitoring Bill”. One major issue is a constitutional one. If a statute provides that there is a 10 or 20 year maximum sentence for a specific crime, how can you go ahead and