Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
If anyone has a few extra moments this weekend, we would greatly appreciate you printing off ten copies of the flyer promoting our Change.org petition and posting them at random places around your community. You can access the flyer here: https://floridaactioncommittee.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Petition-Flyer-1.pdf Find places in your neighborhood where people frequent and see if there’s a community bulletin board or place where
Read moreSince 2011, any Canadian who has been convicted of two or more sexual offences is automatically listed on the registry for life. The Supreme Court has determined that is unconstitutional, saying the list should be based on an offender’s risk to reoffend. According to RCMP, there are 199 people on P.E.I. listed on the registry. They have to report to
Read moreThis is “Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Month” in the City of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. At the City’s Commission meeting held on November 1, 2022, Vice Mayor Ben Sorensen recognized the hard work of homeless outreach and services providers. Notably uninvited and unrecognized were the Florida Action Committee (https://floridaactioncommittee.org) and the Sex Offender Housing Subcommittee of the Broward County Reentry Coalition
Read moreWeekly Update #240 Dear Members and Advocates, Yesterday, FAC submitted a Complaint to the United Nations Human Rights Council against the United States’ public sex offender registry. It asked the High Commissioner of Human Rights of the UN to investigate the registry for human rights violations. The UN’s Human Rights Complaint procedure addresses complaints from individuals or groups who are
Read moreKudos to the Branson Tri-Lakes News for putting up a Halloween sex offender story that’s not misleading. The title is “No Branson sex offender Halloween violations involved children” Unlike most news outlets that would have tried some click bait with a misleading title such as “25% of sex offenders in Branson arrested for Halloween crimes”, they added some semblance of
Read moreThe Office of Justice Programs’ Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking today announced it has awarded approximately $20 million to help states, U.S. territories and tribal communities register and track sex offenders and protect Americans from sexual violence. The awards will help jurisdictions meet the requirements of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, Title I
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