Florida Action Committee (FAC)

Florida’s Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability (OPPAGA) is preparing for its 2024 Sex Offender Registration and Monitoring Triennial Review.  OPPAGA is a research arm of the Florida Legislature which supports the legislature by providing data, evaluative research, and objective analyses that assist legislative budget and policy deliberations. In preparations for their 2024 Triennial Review, OPPAGA reached out

It has concerned me for some time that some of our members think they can visit schools in Florida once they are off all sanctions.  Florida Statute 856.022, subsection (1) lists the criminal offenses, where the victim was under 18 years of age at the time of the offense, for which certain requirements must be followed.  Any person who violates

Law360 reports New York’s State Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assault conviction “has reignited a decades-old legal debate around whether sexual assault prosecutions should be excluded from the rule against allowing propensity evidence in criminal cases, so as to aid juries assessing the plausibility of a defendant’s consent defense, or whether doing so could result in wrongful

By Sandy Rozek First published at narsol.org A 19-year-old Floridian charged with 30 counts of possession of child pornography deserves appropriate punishment but also needs a “specific target intervention focusing on dysfunctional internet use and sexually deviant arousal.”  “It is unlikely he will receive this type of intervention sentenced and incarcerated in the adult system in Florida.” Read Sandy’s article

Politicians tell us that they are making society safer with the registry and all the laws that go with it.  But in two cities in Tennessee, Clarksville and Nashville, that is proving not be the case. This year Clarksville, Tennessee, has seen a 37% increase in sexual assaults compared to last year, which seems to be the trend across the

A local political party in Wyoming has condemned the candidacy of a registered “sex offender.”  The offense occurred in 2002. The candidate states in the Wyoming Tribune Eagle, “All I can do is show our community that people can grow and learn from the (choices) from their past and return to a regular law-abiding life.  I will always regret and