Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
Steven Yoder, an investigative journalist who has had articles featured at our site, has done much to share with the public the truth about people on the sex offense registry and the punitive effects the draconian laws and ordinances have had on registrants. Yoder is now in the process of gathering data for future articles and needs our help. He
Read moreFlorida has the country’s second-largest veteran population, and the Biden administration is trying to keep those veterans from falling into homelessness. At the same time, Florida has the third-highest homeless population for veterans and nonveterans in the country. The administration is trying to eliminate homelessness for veterans in 2023. Much of the work is being done by the Department of
Read moreACSOL President Catherine Carpenter, who is also an endowed law professor at Southwestern School of Law in Los Angeles, has identified and analyzed a method that can be used to win registrants’ cases in court. That method, know as the irrebuttable presumption doctrine, shifts the burden of proof to governments when they make allegations such as that all registrants pose
Read moreIt has been thought by many people that the algorithm used to determine the federal funding for each state’s sex offense registry took into account the number of people who are on the registry. In January of 2022, Florida Action Committee sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick B. Garland inquiring if this was the case for Florida’s bloated registry.
Read moreAs a teacher in a public school, each spring our students were given an anonymous survey asking questions on illegal drug use, thoughts of suicide, exposure to violence, and so on. But the category that always received the most attention from the students was the one with questions on sexual abuse. These surveys were usually given in the spring at
Read moreHouse Transportation and Modals Subcommittee Meeting for HB1085. March 15, 2023 Video from the Florida Action Committee YouTube Channel (Subscribe for updates) is embedded below. It can also be viewed on YouTube.
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