Florida Action Committee (FAC)

Date of Event: September 30, 2021 Time: 7:00 to 9:00 Eastern NARSOL will have a two-hour conference call on September 30, beginning at 7:00 eastern time. We will be discussing NARSOL’s new relationship with Paul Dubbeling. Mr. Dubbeling is an attorney based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina who is now on retainer with NARSOL. He will be leading our reinvigorated Scarlet

It was recently reported that the Kansas State Supreme Court ruled that the registry is not punitive.  It turns out that this registry includes more than just people with a past sex offense.  The Kansas Criminal Registry is one of the most sweeping in the country, including people convicted of drug, violent and sex crimes. The court wrote in its

Washington D.C.’s Metro Board had proposed that anyone arrested on SUSPICION of committing a sex offense or a crime involving a firearm should have a temporary ban from using the stations, trains and buses.  Apparently, the people arrested would be guilty until proven innocent. The bigger issue here, though, is that the board has dropped the proposal as a result

The Tampa Bay Times has been reporting on the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office for targeting and harassing individuals with a criminal background along with family members living with them.  A follow-up story from the Tampa Bay Times reported that the Pasco County Sheriff’s office was also monitoring public school students who had discipline problems in school.  What is coming next

Patch.com, the money-making group that likes to foster the myth that anyone with a past sex offense is out to harm children, started making changes last year after NARSOL called them out: STOP the Red Dots! Even though Patch continued publishing their maps showing where registrants live in certain communities, they also started sharing research, debunking some myths about registrants.

Kansas has started the conversation about making changes to the registry, but they still have a long way to go. Kansas does not have residency restrictions. The good part of the discussion: The Council of State Governments found that requiring an offender to register did not reduce recidivism. The penalty for failing to register is too strong. There are 423