Florida Action Committee (FAC)

Halloween is the most fraught day of the year for our community.  It has been cloaked in fear and libel unnecessarily and irrationally. To many, Halloween is a frivolous day.  Light on cultural baggage and a day to be silly or to have fun.   To some, Halloween is a religious or culturally significant day.  Many cultures honor the deceased in

As the cancer of sex offender ordinances is trying to pass from county to county and municipality to municipality in Florida, we must stay united in our fight against this insanity.  Our FAC board members will tell you that the situation is far from hopeless as more and more opportunities are coming our way to stop what some uninformed individuals

The issue of the clustering of people on the sex offender registry in Tampa continues.  Fortunately the council members are interested in the research and will be holding a workshop on November 30 to study the matter further.  FAC has contacted some experts in this area and is reaching out to the council to hopefully include these people in the

Major Concerns: The need for nursing home care for people required to register is beyond a crisis state – it is catastrophic. Most nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and rehab facilities in Florida are not accepting people on the registry. The two major reasons are: (1) residency restrictions and (2) facilities will not accept people on the sex offender registry.

We sent out two Calls to Action this past June for Volusia County’s proposed sex offender ordinance.  The proposed ordinance was withdrawn, and it appeared to have quietly died.  This was not the case, though, as the sponsor brought it back recently with a vengeance.   This council member calls it “Common sense legislation” – increasing residency requirements in unincorporated areas