Weekly Updates

Weekly Update 2017-08-08 Dear Members and Advocates, Yesterday, The Dobbs Wire circulated a series of essays from a female registrant, Sonia Van den Broek about what life is like on the registry. The series was mostly written a couple of years ago, but the first part was written in 2012, in which she wrote; “Status as a sex offender takes

Weekly Update 2017-08-02 Dear Members and Advocates, In this week’s update, we welcome nearly 75 new members to the Florida Action Committee. A recent membership drive has brought more people to our family and extended our reach into some of the more under-served areas of our State. It is our hope, by continuing to grow and expand, that we become

Weekly Update 2017-07-26 Dear Members and Advocates, Yesterday, almost every media outlet in South Florida featured a story on a round up of homeless sex offenders in Ft. Lauderdale. The big news is that after a multi-week, multi-agency operation dubbed “Not Here Not There”, 22 human beings were not living on the streets where they are “supposed to be”. It’s

Weekly Update 2017-07-19 Dear Members and Advocates, When a court decision is entered, it’s sometimes hard to predict how far-reaching its impact will extend. Case in point; the Supreme Court’s decision in Packingham, which ruled that a State can’t block registrants from social media. As an organization that advocates for registrants and one that happens to be involved in an

Weekly Update 2017-07-12 Dear Members and Advocates, Many of you have been asking “what’s being done” about the newly enacted “Internet Identifier” law that went into effect two weeks ago. We appreciate everyone’s patience as those involved worked feverishly to prepare a response to the new law instead of answering everyone’s questions. We are now able to announce that yesterday,

Weekly Update 2017-07-04 Dear Members and Advocates, Happy July 4th!!! Every year, on this calendar day, we commemorate freedom from oppression. On July 4, 1776, the 13 colonies declared their independence from Great Britain, who had been taxing and subjecting the colonists to unjust treatment decades. Since the Intolerable Acts of 1744, the British used cruelty and propaganda against the