Florida Action Committee (FAC)

I know what you’re thinking… This is GREAT news, but wasn’t the retroactive application of Michigan’s sex offender law already declared unconstitutional. Well yes… you’re thinking of the incredible Does v. Snyder case in the 6th Circuit FEDERAL appellate court (the state tried to take it to the US Supreme Court but they declined to hear it). This decision comes

We thank Ms. Tachana Joseph-Marc for her opinion piece in the Florida Times Union: “Guest Column:  Another missed opportunity for meaningful juvenile justice reform in Florida”.  The major flaw in the vetoed bill, though, was that it excluded those whose offense as a juvenile was a murder offense or sex offense. https://www.jacksonville.com/story/opinion/columns/guest/2021/07/25/another-missed-opportunity-juvenile-justice-reform-florida/8012109002/?mc_cid=c40dd6c29e&mc_eid=fa93f8fd3d To Ms. Marc, I say: Thank you, Ms.

What we want the people of Lake County to understand: Knowing that these people have been taken off the streets at night should help all of us sleep better at night.  Right?  No. In these stings, they usually occur at adult-only websites where law enforcement individuals try to bait unsuspecting individuals to change from courting an adult to courting a

The Judicial Branch Court Support Services Division (JBCSSD) of the State of Connecticut recently released public information indicating the EyeDetect lie detection technology is now being used for assessment and testing by Adult Sex Offender Services on a multi-year plan beginning Jan. 1, 2021. The contract calls for the state to administer 2,300 EyeDetect and polygraph exams annually. One Converus

While FAC deals only with registry issues, many of our members are having to deal with sex offender probation, too.    In reading articles published throughout the United States, one will soon see that it is becoming a common occurrence to have U. S. Marshalls serving on specially assigned task forces to assist local law enforcement agencies in so-called compliance checks

A story has been running for a couple of days now about a non-compliant registrant “squatting” in a Kansas City Historic Northeast neighborhood.  The man clearly needs medical/neurological/psychiatric help from the community.  Instead, one resident made it her mission to nag the police until they were finally forced to arrest the man just to shut the woman up.  https://fox4kc.com/news/police-arrest-non-compliant-sex-offender-squatting-in-kansas-city-historic-northeast-neighborhood/  OUR