Florida Action Committee (FAC)

Federal Law prohibits housing assistance to a household if any member of a household is subject to a state lifetime sex offender registration requirement. FAC has written a letter to the head of the US Housing and Urban Development, letting her know what that means to families here in Florida, where every registrant is a “lifetime” registrant. A copy of

According to Sheriff Tim Lane in Scott County, Iowa, “The recidivism rate for sex offenders is actually lower than it is for other crimes.  I attribute that to the hard work of the Sheriff’s Department and the Iowa Department of Corrections.” https://qctimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/sex-offender-compliance-checks-net-10-arrests/article_f61d18b8-81a0-5e97-bd1f-27dbec4cbc9f.html I have copied and am mailing all 26 pages of “The effectiveness of Sex Offender Registration and Notification:

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) has partnered with an app that show residents where sex offenders live in their neighborhoods ahead of Halloween. The free app called Offender Watch says on its website that it allows parents to “track your children, map offenders nearby, get alerts if your child is contacted or lingers near an offender’s residence, safety tips,

Here are some bullet points to share on job interviews or to prospective employers who are considering hiring a registrant. The IRS offers some nice tax incentives for hiring someone that is difficult to employ. The Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) is a Federal tax credit available to employers for hiring and employing individuals formerly incarcerated or those previously convicted

FAC is searching for an individual or individuals who can assist with our social media pages. Generally, content from our website gets re-posted to our Facebook and Twitter pages. Once there, very little engagement takes place (if any, because we currently have nobody managing it). The social media manager(s) would administer our social media pages, engage with people who post

Canada, like the US, has a sex offender registry. Unlike the US, theirs is not public and contains nowhere near (not even close) to the restrictions of SORNA or any State. Even with that, Canada’s Supreme Court was still offended by mandatory lifetime registration and declared it to be unconstitutional. The case is R. v. Ndhlovu, 2022 SCC 38. Canada