Florida Action Committee (FAC)

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

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