With Unity Comes Change
The decision to keep South Africa’s National Register for Sex Offenders (NRSO) private is essential for protecting constitutional rights and ensuring due process. The register was created as a tool for employers and institutions responsible for vulnerable individuals, not as a public database for widespread access. Making it public would violate privacy laws, such as the Protection of Personal Information
Read moreIn response to a KATU (Oregon) investigation revealing that thousands of sex offenders in Oregon remain unclassified, Senator Cedric Hayden has introduced legislation to reform the state’s sex offender classification system. The proposed bill, Senate Bill 1068, mandates that Oregon’s Parole Board accept classification levels assigned to offenders by other states, aiming to expedite the classification process and address public
Read moreHey Everyone while we are updating our website here is the current legislative matrix. We will get a cleaner page up soon. https://floridaactioncommittee.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/2025-LEGISLATION-20250307P2.pdf
Read moreThe Putnam County Sheriff’s office has a new tactic to try and rid its county of persons forced to register as sex offenders: code violations. While local sheriff’s offices and police departments are tasked with ensuring individuals are compliant with registration obligations, The Sheriff is taking it a few steps further and investigating any municipal code violations in the homes
Read moreDozens of transient sex offenders lived in Volusia County as of October, and county officials are exploring ways to address the issue. District 1 Volusia County Councilman Don Dempsey brought up the statistic during closing comments at Tuesday’s County Council meeting. Dempsey has said during previous council discussions that he would rather see homeless sex offenders housed so that they
Read moreCBS Action News JAX says, “Registered sex offenders claim to be displaced. They felt that they were targeted by the community to get them out of the trailer park.” One of the displaced gentlemen said this is another type of sentence placed on top of the prison sentence that he already has served. He is correct. There are no showers
Read moreNational Association for Rational Sexual Offense Laws Dear Advocate, Just a friendly reminder of the upcoming all-advocates Unity Conference and Vigil in Washington, D.C. The conference is Sunday, March 2nd; the vigil is the next day, the 3rd, gathering near the steps of the Supreme Court Building and starting around 11 a.m. The one-day conference begins at 9 a.m. EST and has
Read moreBefore the legislative session starts in March of 2025, there will be state senators and representatives at the legislative delegation meetings in all 67 counties. It is a chance for our voices to be heard. FAC has five prepared speeches: Solutions for helping elderly people on the registry receive long-term healthcare (Read Speech on Protecting the Elderly) Collateral damages for
Read moreThis nj.com article reports on the sentencing of a New Jersey corrections officer, Eric Maurucci, who was convicted of killing a detainee who was a registered sex offender. Maurucci received a sentence of only three years in prison for the assault, which occurred in 2022 at the Middlesex County Adult Correctional Center. The victim, who was awaiting trial on charges
Read moreThe U.S. Department of State is seeking public comments on a recent revision to the passport application process, as outlined in a 30-Day Notice of Proposed Information Collection published in the Federal Register on February 14, 2025. [Docket Number: 2025-02648] The revision requires passport applicants to affirm that they are not required to register as a sex offender, in
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