Florida Action Committee (FAC)

Several law-enforcement agencies Dec. 2 conducted unannounced checks of 40 registered sex offenders in Delaware County, finding that a high percentage were in compliance with their residential registration. During the survey, only one was found not in compliance with Ohio’s rules for registered sex offenders. Chief Deputy Jon Scowden, of the Delaware County Sheriff’s Office, said the checks were conducted

There is a prevailing narrative about crime that positions bad people as the problem and toughness — in the form of police and prisons — as the solution. It’s emotionally powerful, enough to make politicians allocate money for more cops and more jails in order to avoid being labeled weak, or worse, pro-crime. But policies like this have little if any

A lot of people contact FAC confused about how persons forced to register as sex offenders can be treated in a way that no other group can be. Try to prevent members of a particular race from living within exclusion zones in a city and see how quickly the protests erupt. Ban a particular religious group from public venues and

Last week, The Guardian called it “lifting the lid on a sexual abuse scandal”. A former Kansas City, Kansas police department detective Roger Golubski, who had spent 35 years with the police force, had spent decades sexually assaulting women in the community he served. Using his badge as a weapon, he intimidated and threatened his victims with arrest if they

In Wisconsin, two 15-year-olds whose foster parent caught them having consensual sex were charged with felony sexual assault and put on the sex offender registry for at least 15 years. In Arizona, it’s possible for a minor who streaks nude at a football game to be charged with a sex offense and put on a registry. In Massachusetts, teens caught