Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
We all know that rare and sometimes completely benign events can lead to some terrible laws. In Ohio, a woman employed in a haunted house quit her job after realizing that two of her coworkers at “Spooky Ranch” were on the registry. It’s not that they did anything to her or anyone while employed there, it’s just their presence that
Read moreMore than a dozen registered sex offenders are living too close to children, that’s according to the Lamesa Police Department. The chief of police confirmed that 19 residents received notices stating they were in violation of the city’s code of ordinances. Eugene Gaspar is a registered sex offender who said the department gave him 90 days to move, or face
Read more(Weekly Update #232) Dear Members and Advocates, This weekly update is dedicated to Matthew. I know you already received a weekly update this week, but that topic and the response to it was so important that I feel compelled to write another – because the message can be lifesaving. I wrote about rejection and the chronic social rejection people on
Read moreBelow is a letter sent to the Gainesville City Commission. FAC Letter to Gainesville City Commission The letter is in response to the commission considering an amendment to their residency restriction that would roll back the restriction from 2500 to the State’s 1000 square feet. FAC supports this Amendment for two reasons; 1000 feet is better than 2500 feet, and
Read moreSOURCE: Steven Whitsett, Baden-Württemberg, Germany Sending registrants back to prison for mere administrative violations of Florida’s sex offender registry violates human rights law. How’s that for a bit of good news? After paying my “debt to society” by completing a lengthy prison term in Florida and two years of supervision, I decided that I didn’t owe anything further and was
Read moreGainesville City Commissioners passed a motion to craft a proposed amendment to the current Sexual Offender and Sexual Predator Ordinance in place to mirror the state statute. [FAC NOTE: THIS WOULD BE GOOD!] “I think it just makes a consistency and so it’s legally defensible. You know, that we’re not sort of afield of what is already accepted through the
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