Florida Action Committee

While a federal appeals court upheld Tennessee’s sex offense registry law, it acknowledged that restricting where people on the registry can live, work and travel is potentially unconstitutional.  The court said that the plaintiffs had not sued the right people, so the court cannot do anything about it. Additionally, the judges said that categorizing registrants as violent or non-violent sexual

Since our Call to Action went out on April 26, 2024, all movement seemed to have stopped for these two bills.   Besides our many FAC members who sent emails to the Louisiana legislators opposing these bills, there were organized groups from all over the country that participated in this email blitz. There was movement on May 15, 2024, with the

First published at narsol.org   It’s not too late to register for the NARSOL conference in Atlanta, Georgia, June 20 – 23. Go to https://conference.narsol.org/ where you can register, view the schedule of events, and even book a hotel room. Follow the hotel link on the conference website to determine if rooms in the NARSOL block are still available. At this conference, you

In Florida Action Committee’s most recent Weekly Update and Monthly Membership Call, we discussed paper arrests/felonies—when some error or omission in a Person Forced to Register’s (PFR) registration paperwork results in an arrest because of the inaccuracy of the data they reported to their sheriff’s office and, in turn, reported to FDLE. We have also had discussions on incorrect information

A PFR in Florida is “letting his neighbors know that he is a registered sex offender in a unique way: with a large sign in his yard.”  (Aol., May 2024) Even though he was able to avoid jail time, he will be on the sex offense registry for life.  According to the PFR, one reason for the sign was to