News & Updates

A 40 year old man in Jacksonville is facing 10 years in prison and a quarter of a million dollar fine for failing to register as a sex offender. The man, who committed a sexual offense in 1998, moved to Florida in June of 2014 and never registered. He obtained a Florida ID in August and was arrested in September

In a move that FAC actually supports, the City of Hollywood, Florida will likely approve a new set of rules tomorrow that will prevent anyone OVER the age of 12 from being in a playground unless they are in the company of a minor who is 12 or under. The city cites problems with the homeless and “amorous” teens using

The following appeared in the National Lawyer’s Guild Review. It highlights the impact the negative sentiment towards sex offenders and strong political influence has on the treatment of this class of citizens by the justice system. National Lawyers Guild Review | Fall 2014 | Alexandra Stupple Disgust, Dehumanization, and the Courts’ Response to Sex Offender Legislation Sex offenders have been

Just as our goal for 2014 was to have a legal challenge against residency restrictions (and we were successful in getting one filed), our goal for 2015 is to have a legal challenge against proximity restrictions (and we WILL have one filed). Unlike residency restrictions, which control where a registrant can live, proximity restrictions control where a registrant can GO!

Yesterday’s Daytona Beach News-Journal reported on a home in Daytona which as many as nine registrants call home. As if it were any surprise, registrants are clustered together into limited pockets of availability as a result of residency restrictions and forced to scramble for a spot in one of the very few available properties that will (a) take them, (b)

Have you noticed that you’ve been receiving an increased amount of solicitations since you’ve been required to register your online identifiers? There is a suspicion that law enforcement agencies are targeting registrants’ registered “internet identifiers” in conducting stings. If you’ve experienced an unusually high number of unsolicited contacts via email or instant messenger from someone you don’t know who is