Florida Action Committee (FAC)

Florida Action Committee is working toward filing a lawsuit to begin taking down the insane Florida county ordinances that are spreading from county to county like a cancer.  All it takes is for one county/municipal commissioner to hear of a sex offense ordinance in a nearby county and they decide to propose it in their own locality.  Never has any

FAC Contributor #12 on October 3, 2024 at 5:32 pm Final arguments were heard challenging the Florida requirement that the message sexual predator must be printed on a driver’s license. The plaintiff, an FAC member from Jacksonville, argued that this requirement is unconstitutionally compelled speech. The plaintiff is represented by attorneys from the Florida Justice Institute in Miami. FJI also challenged

According to Elizabeth Larson with the Lake County News, “a federal court ruling handed down earlier this month has resulted in changes to inmate and arrest information posted on the Lake County Sheriff’s Office website.” The Ninth Circuit Court ruled that Maricopa County, Arizona’s posting of photographs of arrestees was unconstitutional since it is punishment, and the state may not

The decision was a mixed one that found some aspects of the most recent version of Michigan’s Sex Offender Registration Act unconstitutional, but upheld it in other respects.   The court found for the Plaintiffs on the following issues: (1) Under relevant Sixth Circuit case law, retroactive imposition of an in-person reporting requirement violated the Ex Post Facto clause. (2)

Since June of this year, an FAC board member has made numerous attempts to set up a meeting with the Assistant Commissioner for Florida Department of Law Enforcement and several FAC members to begin a dialogue between FDLE and families of those forced to register. Topics of concern that FAC would like addressed: After FDLE modernized its software and operating

By Dwayne Daughtry   In North Carolina, a troubling conflict between law and faith has emerged. Current sex offense laws are effectively barring individuals on the sex offender registry from attending church services—a stark contradiction to the spirit of religious freedom that the Constitution is meant to protect. This issue stems from the vague wording of the “Sex Offender Unlawfully