Florida Action Committee (FAC)

It was recently brought to our attention that the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office is requiring personal information from persons required to register who intended to travel. Specifically the means of travel (including copies of flight information) for domestic travel and purpose of travel for domestic and international travel. If you are not on probation, you are not required to request

What use is the Sex Offender Registry when it did absolutely nothing to prevent sex offending from taking place right under it’s nose? We’re talking about a former Cobb County (Georgia) Deputy Sheriff assigned to the agency’s Sex Offender Unit, that was sentenced to federal prison for distributing child pornography! According to a press release from the U.S. Government, ”

International Megan’s Law to Prevent Child Exploitation and Other Sexual Crimes Through Advanced Notification of Traveling Sex Offenders, known as IML, requires the State Department to include a unique identifier in the passports of registered sex offenders covered under the law based on their conviction for a sex offense against a minor. When an offender travels internationally, this identifier enables

Tampa City Council Members will study the findings of a report from the Tampa Police Department on Thursday about a high concentration of sex offenders living in a one-block stretch of Nebraska Avenue in the city’s V.M. Ybor neighborhood. Tampa police officials say there are now 100 sex offenders living in V.M. Ybor, 76 of them with distance restrictions to

Our Change.org petition has broken 3,500 signatures. We would like to get to 5,000. Not only because more numbers is a greater indication of more people thinking the registry is a human rights violation, but because we want more people to read the actual petition! People who are not informed about the registry may not have a true understanding of

Effective immediately, the City of Gainesville has rolled back it’s sex offender residency restriction to fall inline with the State’s law. The change, which reduces the exclusion zone from 2500 feet to 1000 feet, was unanimously voted in favor of by the City Commission, who did the right thing when faced with a lawsuit brought by a registrant who was