Weekly Updates

Weekly update for December 23, 2025. This is recording number 345 Dear Members and Advocates, As the holiday season is upon us, we want to take a moment to wish everyone in the Florida Action Committee community a peaceful and meaningful holiday. For many, this is a time of family gatherings, shared meals, and traditions that remind us of connection

Weekly update for December 9, 2025. This is recording number 343. Dear Members and Advocates, The most consistent hardship reported by our members is the challenge of securing compliant housing. For anyone on Florida’s registry, the process is not simply a matter of searching for an affordable rental. It begins with navigating a maze of overlapping laws—State Statutes, County ordinances, and

Weekly update for December 1, 2025. This is recording number 341. Dear Members and Advocates, We want to begin this week’s update with an urgent warning about a particularly insidious scam targeting people on the registry. By now you should already be prepared to receive calls from someone pretending to be with law enforcement trying to extort money. But that’s not

Weekly update for November 25, 2025. This is recording number 340. Dear Members and Advocates, Back in 2014, then-Florida Representative Matt Gaetz pledged to make Florida “scorched earth” for sexual predators. Ironically — given his own later involvement in a federal sex-trafficking investigation — his vision became reality. Over the last decade, Florida hasn’t just gotten tougher on past sexual offenders, it

Weekly update for November 18, 2025. This is recording number 339. Dear Members and Advocates,   One of my favorite movie quotes comes from the Mel Brooks classic Blazing Saddles: “Badges? We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!” — itself a nod to the original line from the 1948 film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Over the years, the phrase has

Weekly update for November 10, 2025. This is recording number 338. Dear Members and Advocates, On July 27, 1981, Adam Walsh was abducted from a Sears store in Hollywood, Florida. On June 21, 2013, Cherish Perrywinkle was kidnapped from a Walmart in Jacksonville, Florida. Both of these tragedies are every parent’s worst nightmare and both became the emotional catalysts for laws