Florida Action Committee (FAC)

Each October law enforcement officials increase their number of random checks on people forced to register as a sex offender.  Then come the press releases informing the public that children will now be safer during their Halloween activities.  While there is no research to back up such statements, this activity by law enforcement has increasingly become a form of harassment

Many FAC members are preparing to speak at the upcoming Florida delegation meetings which begin in November and run through February.  (Opening day of the 2025 Regular Session is Tuesday, March 4, 2025.) Until a few years ago, our legislators were not hearing from many people on the registry, nor their family members.  That has now changed, and we want

We want all children protected on Halloween as well as the other 364 days of the year, yet we waste so much money and resources that do very little to achieve this goal. I refuse to post the articles talking about the meaningless, so-called precautions that counties are taking which will do nothing to make children safer on Halloween, but

The Pennsylvania Association for Rational Sexual Offense Laws (PARSOL) is holding its inaugural Fall Conference next month on Friday, November 15, 2024, in Harrisburg, PA from 8:30 am to 6:00 pm (plus evening film & discussion!) The conference will also be live-streamed so anyone across the country can join.  So sign up today.  With the live-stream option, you will have

News Nation states, “Sex offenders in one Florida county are being told they cannot enter shelters during Hurricane Milton and must stay at the local jail instead.” No surprise to most of us, this was in Flagler County where Rick Staly is the sheriff.  Staly said that these people, who are forced to be classified as sexual predators, have probably

This week two of our FAC board members participated in a reentry seminar at Madison Correctional Institution, an incentivized facility.  The Florida Department of Corrections plans on eventually conducting such seminars at all facilities.  Why it has taken so long to figure out the need for such programs, I do not know.  But leaving a correctional institution with a one-way