Weekly Updates

Weekly update for September 16, 2025. This is recording number 328. Dear Members and Advocates, This past week marked the anniversary of 9/11, a moment that always calls us to reflect on both tragedy and resilience. And just days ago, another tragic act of violence shook the nation: the shooting of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk. We live in a culture that

Weekly update for September 9, 2025. This is recording number 327.   Dear Members and Advocates,   Florida Action Committee does not typically involve itself in individual criminal cases. But sometimes, a case so clearly exposes the cruelty of the system that it demands our attention. This is one of those times. In November of 2022, we sent a weekly update

Weekly update for September 2, 2025. This is recording number 325.   Dear Members and Advocates, On August 26, 2025, the Putnam County Commission adopted Sec. 28-3, the “Sexual Offender and Sexual Predator Act.” This is the same county where earlier this year, Sheriff “Gator” DeLoach vowed to “rid the county of sex offenders” and carried out a mass eviction at a

Weekly update for August 27, 2025. This is recording number 324. Dear Members and Advocates, Each morning a FAC volunteer scans media headlines from across the world to find relevant news to share with our readers. Yesterday, there were a bunch on the same story. The headlines on Pennsylvania’s ABC 27 read, “Florida sex offender arrested after receiving stolen property

Dear Members and Advocates, It’s time for a little self-care and motivation. A couple of weeks ago we wrote about restoring humanity to criminal justice, especially when it concerns our population. We wrote how certain Sheriffs’ press conferences where they refer to registrants as “scum bags” and “monsters” inflame the public and lead to consequences from shaming to vigilantism, to

Weekly update for August 12, 2025. This is recording number 322. Dear Members and Advocates, The homeless registrant population in Miami-Dade County has broken 500 people. According to the FDLE database, there are a total of 596 individuals with a “transient” address in Miami-Dade listed on the sex offender registry. 28 are listed as absconded, 67 are in confinement, leaving