Weekly Updates

Dear Members and Advocates, As Hurricane Idalia moves closer to shores, we are sending reminders to members to SEEK SHELTER.  Our county-by-county listing of emergency shelters is a start, but this listing is not current so please confirm with your local sheriff offices. Thanks to a report from Unbroken Dreams in Hillsborough, there is a shelter in Tampa that is approved for registered citizens.

Dear Members and Advocates, Florida homelessness ranks third in the nation, reporting 27,487 homeless people (HUD’s Annual Homeless Assessment Report)  We frequently receive reports and stories of persons and families forced into homelessness because of SO Residency Restrictions (SORR). Often, they have homes to go to during the day, but Residency Restrictions force them into the homeless status at night….you

Dear Members an Advocates, 2023 marks the 50th year since the U.S. prison population began its extraordinary surge. To date over five million people are under supervision by the criminal legal system, and nearly two million people, disproportionately Black, are currently incarcerated in our nation’s jails and prisons. This represents a 500 percent increase since 1973. How did we get here? Many of the conditions

Dear Members and Advocates, Take a minute to look back on the pandemic period of 2020.  As the world was encouraging individuals to take every conceivable precaution to protect themselves and others from spreading the Coronavirus, those concerns did not apply to people required to register.   In the middle of a pandemic, the Florida Governor still required people on the registry

Weekly Update for July 25, 2023 Dear Members and Advocates,   Florida Action Committee (FAC) is the Florida state affiliate for the National Association for Rational Sex Offense Laws (NARSOL).  FAC was well represented at the NARSOL conference in Houston last month and plans are underway to make it feasible for more FAC members to attend the 2024 conference next

FAC Weekly Update 2023-07-04 Dear Members and Advocates, Today we celebrate Independence Day, commonly known as the Fourth of July.  It holds significant historical and cultural importance in the United States, serving as a reminder of the country’s founding principles of liberty, equality, and self-governance. It is a day of celebration, unity, and remembrance, as Americans come together to honor