Weekly Updates

(Weekly Update #179) Dear Members and Advocates, These days, when I go out to eat or shop in a retail store, I’m commonly greeted with a “Help Wanted” sign. Often, service staff apologize in advance for the slow service I can expect because they are understaffed. Some fast food restaurants are advertising starting hourly wages at absurdly high hourly rates

Dear Members and Advocates,   Thanksgiving is a time to reflect on the many blessings in our lives that have brought us light. Some readers may only recall dark moments from their past that they feel might never leave them, and they continue to experience the darkness even in their present situation.  No matter what, there is always hope for a

(Weekly Update #177) Dear FAC Members and Advocates, I don’t usually write the Weekly Update emails, but this week I have something on my heart that I need to share.  Its my story, and I want to appeal to everyone with a loved one on the Registry, to tell their story for reasons I will explain below. I am the

(Weekly Update #176) Dear Members and Advocates, This past week, we revisited the Pennsylvania Record account of the five female students who falsely accused a male student of sexual assault.  Law enforcement believed them and apparently a prosecutor did, too. The Jacksonville Florida Times Union had as its lead story on the front page of a Sunday edition in the

(Weekly Update #175) Dear Members and Advocates, Are you familiar with Maslow’s Hierarchy of Basic Needs?   It is a theory by Abraham Maslow, which puts forward that people are motivated by five basic categories of needs: physiological, safety, love, esteem, and self-actualization. Survival and successes are difficult enough when our basic human needs are being met.  But as many have

  (Weekly Update #174) Dear Members and Advocates, There are many misconceptions about the sex offense registry.  One would be hard pressed to find a Florida legislator who is familiar with all of the statutes and ordinances that pertain to people in our state who are forced to register. I have found that most people are shocked when they learn