Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
This is a question we occasionally hear: If there are approximately 90,000 people on Florida’s registry, why does the Florida Action Committee have only 3,300 members? Do the other 86,700 agree with the registry? Hell NO! Like many advocacy organizations, FAC represents and fights for a population much larger than its membership. The reality is that many people who could
Read moreWeekly update for June 16, 2026. This is recording number 376 Dear Members and Advocates, One of the realities of living on the sex offender registry is that many registrants and their families exist in a perpetual state of heightened awareness. We know that the public registry does more than publish information. It creates opportunities for unknowing violation, harassment,
Read moreOne of the most common criticisms of internet sting operations is that there was never an actual child involved. If the “victim” was really an undercover officer sitting behind a computer screen, can there truly be a victim at all? The criminal conviction itself is not the surprising part — that question has largely been settled by decades of case
Read moreDetectives with the Collegedale Police Department connected the disappearance of a 56-year-old man to an 18-year-old, who now faces several charges, including criminal homicide. Police said that on June 9, someone reported that Neal “had told her that he had killed someone, but they were a rapist and missing, and that he disposed of the body,” the affidavit stated. Detectives
Read moreLate on a Saturday night in McAllen, Texas, Sanjay Singhania was awoken by a call from a phone number he didn’t recognize. The man on the line said that Mr. Singhania’s son, Akash, was being arrested. The stranger was not trying to be helpful. He sounded amused. Mr. Singhania hung up and tried to call Akash, 25, who lived in
Read morePolice arrested a man in Florida for attempted child abduction in a town he had never visited, and the only evidence linking him to the crime was an AI facial recognition hit. Represented by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), he is now suing the officers and agencies who put him through it. In November 2023, police in Jacksonville Beach,
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