Florida Action Committee (FAC)

The Alligator at the University of Florida recently printed an article on a new program in Alachua County called Just Income GNV.  “This privately funded program, designed by formerly incarcerated individuals, assists formerly incarcerated people re-enter society with a guaranteed income.” Just Income GNV is still in the application process, which ends Dec. 1.  A group of 115 people will

On Nov. 19th, the Colorado “Sex Offender” Management Board proposed changing the term “sex offender” to “adults who commit sex offenses” in their treatment guidelines. (Interestingly, they had previously changed the language for juveniles in a similar manner without controversy.) Personally, I don’t feel the new label is an improvement as it still implies a current and ever-present danger by

The Iowa Supreme Court has ruled that the state is not wrongfully detaining sex offenders by delaying the treatment they must complete to be considered for parole. The opinion issued Tuesday states that the Iowa Department of Corrections has acted reasonably in attempting to address the fact there are too many sex offenders in the system to provide treatment on

We don’t advocate for crime, we advocate for people… That’s what I have to remind people over and over again when they say “oh, Florida Action Committee… you’re the group that fights for sex offenders.” No! That’s absolutely not true. We don’t advocate for ‘people who commit sex offenses’ because we are very much against sexual offending. If someone is

The Bureau of Justice Statistics released in March of 2021 a report on the number of veterans in prisons using data from 2016. The 2016 BJS report shows in Table 3 that male veterans who were incarcerated for a violent sexual offense made up 26.4% of male veterans in state prisons and 7.2% of male veterans in federal prisons.  Male