Florida Action Committee (FAC)

Data4Change, Inc has completed a recidivism study of first time offenders in Florida.  Using Florida Department of Corrections data (current to 12/31/23), major offenses are broken out by re-offense; those not re-offending; by technical probation violations and new offenses un-related to original crimes.   In Florida, first time offenders since 2020 only report a 1% recidivism rate for a new

For the Senate Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice (SB 1230) and the House Judiciary Committee (HB 1235)   WE LEARNED THIS MORNING (JANUARY 30) THAT HB 1235 WAS MOVED OUT OF THE HOUSE JUSTICE APPROPRIATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE (NOT BEING VOTED ON) AND HAS GONE STRAIGHT TO THE HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE.  THIS CALL TO ACTION HAS BEEN AMENDED TO INCLUDE

For the Senate Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice (SB 1230) and the House Justice Appropriations Subcommittee (HB 1235)   Even though SB 1230 and HB 1235 have passed favorably in each of their first committees, we learned from last year that now is not the time to give up.  Our FAC legislative chair has been spending days in

The Legislative Committee has posted two lists of legislative bills working their way through various subcommittees of the Florida Senate and House on the FAC website.  A link is provided below.  The matrices are located in the Legislative Committee section under the header “Committees” on the menu bar found above and just below the FAC logo.     One matrix highlights

The survey provided successful insight into use of the FDLE Cyber Communication System.  Even with a glitch in the setting of multiple choice answers for two questions in the survey, many wrote in answers that have been added to the results here.   The results demonstrate that most respondents familiar with and approved to use the online system do use

Florida Legislators are trying to make changes to statutes 775.21 and 943.0435, some of which would make the statutes more punitive.   Besides a campaign with hundreds of people contacting legislators to oppose certain parts of the bill, a press release has been sent out.  You can read the press release here.