Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
In our work with families of registered citizens, FAC has been contacted hundreds of times by spouses, children, social workers and others trying to solve a problem that should never have to exist. How do you find a place for an elderly or profoundly disabled person who needs assisted living or nursing care when the registry makes him unplaceable? One
Read moreFlorida Action Committee • FAC Media 📣 Friday Wrap-Up ⚡ Behind the Registry Headlines News • Research • Community • Ways to Take Action Friday, October 2, 2026 This week’s registry coverage brings another round of compliance arrests, a scam warning, and a court question about what it means to “knowingly” miss registration. Looking beyond the headlines matters. An arrest
Read moreThe California Governor signed a law requiring people convicted of serious sex crimes must be over 65 and have served 25 years before being eligible to apply for elderly parole. Some groups opposed, arguing that it will categorically prevent the release of many who have actually rehabilitated themselves, but the bill was signed into law anyhow.
Read moreThere is something very scary about the wrongful arrest of a father described in this week’s Biometric Update and Florida Trib reporting. It concerns the use of facial-recognition technology by police departments. A man was communicating with an undercover officer he believed was a 13-year-old girl. The guy sent two photographs of another man — his former friend, identified in
Read moreFlorida Action Committee | FAC Media Florida Expands Career-Offender Registration Requirements SB 1332: Who is covered and what changes • October 1, 2026 Florida expanded its career-offender registration requirements on October 1. SB 1332, now Chapter 2026-151, adds reporting duties for people legally designated as career offenders. For people on Florida’s sexual-offender registry, the immediate question is understandable: does this
Read moreCanada has taken a much more rational approach to managing persons required to register as sex offenders in the community. A recent CBC report out of Ottawa highlighted one such case where notification led to vigilantism. In August, Ottawa police issued a public safety notification about a man they described as a high-risk violent sexual offender who had moved to
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