Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
Florida Action Committee • ☀️ Sunday Lookout Rebuilding Lives and Reasons for Hope Sunday, October 4, 2026 • By FAC Media 📅 Upcoming FAC Events Here are a few opportunities to connect this week. All times are Eastern. 🤝 Monday, October 5, 8:00–9:30 p.m. — Member Support Call. Join for conversation, encouragement, and sharing. Join by Zoom, or call 305-224-1968
Read moreFlorida Action Committee – Reporting and Commentary Two Separate Pinellas Cases Raise Concerns About Police Database Misuse Public Safety Includes Accountability By FAC Media – October 3, 2026 The public and lawmakers need to know how closely police database access is being watched. Law enforcement receives access to sensitive information for public safety. That access should never become a way
Read moreIn our work with families of registered citizens, FAC has been contacted hundreds of times by spouses, children, social workers and others trying to solve a problem that should never have to exist. How do you find a place for an elderly or profoundly disabled person who needs assisted living or nursing care when the registry makes him unplaceable? One
Read moreThere is something very scary about the wrongful arrest of a father described in this week’s Biometric Update and Florida Trib reporting. It concerns the use of facial-recognition technology by police departments. A man was communicating with an undercover officer he believed was a 13-year-old girl. The guy sent two photographs of another man — his former friend, identified in
Read moreCanada has taken a much more rational approach to managing persons required to register as sex offenders in the community. A recent CBC report out of Ottawa highlighted one such case where notification led to vigilantism. In August, Ottawa police issued a public safety notification about a man they described as a high-risk violent sexual offender who had moved to
Read moreA disappointing opinion came out of the Middle District of Florida for the Petitioner, Louis Clements. Clements pleaded guilty in 2008 to lewd and lascivious conduct under § 800.04(6) and got five years of sex-offender probation, which ended around 2013. His first § 2254 petition was dismissed because he wasn’t “in custody.” Clements I (11th Cir. 2023) affirmed, holding that
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