Florida Action Committee (FAC)

The Florida Action Committee’s change.org petition asking the High Commissioner for Human Rights for the United Nations to declare the public sex offender registry a human rights violation has collected more than 4,000 signatures! We are so happy with the response the petition has received from our members, from other advocacy groups and from their friends and families. We need

A sharply divided Washington Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a man who was previously convicted of a sex offense and other crimes can be licensed as an attorney. The 5-4 decision clears the way for Zachary LeRoy Stevens, who graduated from Arizona State University’s law school in 2018, to practice law in Washington. The opinion said Stevens had a difficult childhood

Nearly a decade into an effort to reduce the glut of sex offenders on the state registry to allow more intense focus on the most dangerous, a bureaucratic morass has nearly doubled the registry instead. The Oregon parole board remains bogged down in state-mandated assessments to gauge the risk of each offender to commit new crimes. Of 32,523 people on

Two days ago we posted a petition on Change.org asking the High Commissioner of Human Rights of the United Nations to investigate the United State’s sex offender registry for human rights violations. Our ask of the UN was to look into the onerous restrictions and requirements imposed by the registry and the debilitating shame caused by the public notification, and

In 2014, Rohn M. Weatherly stole a neighbor’s car, in the back seat of which was the owner’s 4-year-old daughter. Weatherly returned the child within a few hours, but his act was dangerous, illegal, and worthy of punishment. What it wasn’t was a sex crime, yet Weatherly will be required to register as a sex offender upon his release from

OK guys, I know it must feel like we’re picking on Polk County, Florida a lot, and that is for very good reason. It’s because we are. Polk County has become notorious for their sex offender stings. Whether it’s setting up fake online profiles on adult dating sites to bait and switch naive men or announcing the results of aggressive