Facial Recognition technology and Sex Offenders – Automatic Guilt by association?

Weekly Update #68 Dear Members and Advocates, The Washington Post, today, reports that the House Oversight and Reform Committee is convening for a third hearing on the topic of facial recognition technology. While some legislators are gung ho about the use of the artificial intelligence software, others are very skeptical. We are scared! According to the Post article, “Just this

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FL-House-bill-1055-and-its-impact-on-sex-offenders

Weekly Update #66 Dear Members and Advocates, Happy New Year! 2020 started out great as we closed the year meeting a funding goal in the “Non-Registrant Collateral Consequences Challenge”! Because of a super-generous matching pledge from one of our members, the first five thousand dollars of donations towards that challenge were matched, dollar for dollar. That meant the $5,125 we

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television station WJXT and News4Jax ‘getting it all wrong’ again on Sex Offenders

Weekly Update #64 Dear Members and Advocates, This week’s update is directed at television station WJXT and their news show News4Jax (@wjxt4)… Shame on you! The backstory: A few days ago, two children went missing in Jacksonville, Florida. Yesterday, before those children were (most importantly) found safe, News4Jax aired a story they titled “30 sex offenders, predators in 2-mile radius

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Non-Registrant (Sex Offender) Collateral Consequences (NRCC) Challenge

Weekly Update #61 Dear Members and Advocates, In September, we announced that our next legal challenge would be the “Non-Registrant Collateral Consequences (NRCC) Challenge”. 2019 has been FAC’s “year of the family”. We have engaged more non-registrants into our advocacy, we coordinated family support groups with treatment providers, and there is no way to better end the year than by

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