News & Updates

As registrants, we know how difficult it is to find employment. Irrespective of how educated, professional or qualified you are, the scarlet letter infects you, your family, your friends, your employer. There are kind-hearted people out there who are willing to give someone a second chance and help them support their families and themselves. In exchange they get a hard-working,

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) last week filed a lawsuit against Miami-Dade County and the Florida Department of Corrections on behalf of three individual plaintiffs and on behalf of the Florida Action Committee. The lawsuit challenges the residency restrictions on several grounds. We are so pleased that the ACLU stepped up to take on this challenge and honored that

A new study published in the Journal of Offender Rehabilitation and which can be downloaded here: https://floridaactioncommittee.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/The-Experiences-of-Registered-Sex.pdf examines the impact of online registries on offenders as well as the impact on public safety. The study’s conclusion is copied and pasted below, but you can read the full study at the above link. Several studies, including the current analysis, point to

Today, FAC circulated an email inviting members to join our monthly member call on November 6, 2014. The topic of the meeting will be a review of the forthcoming election results, what it means for our cause and where to find contact information for the newly elected politicians. In response to our mailing, we received several responses from registrants, who

Pharr, TX — Trial is set to begin December 1, in the case of former Pharr police officer Erasmo Mata, Jr., accused of repeated first-degree felony sexual assaults of a child. A federal civil lawsuit filed with Texas Southern District Court back in May accused Mata of assaulting the minor five times, on five separate occasions, all while on duty.  The

SOURCE A little town in Indiana named Bedford did something this Halloween that I found particularly despicable. The past week or so I have been commenting fast and furiously, as often as possible, against the need to expend extra-ordinary efforts protecting trick-or-treaters against registrants and for the more-needed addition of traffic patrols Halloween evening and night. I was getting rather