Florida Action Committee (FAC)

Last month New Yorkers in the Upper West Side were all up in arms about a hotel that was used as a temporary shelter to house 18 persons labeled as “sex offenders”. Neighbors of the Hotel Belleclaire, at 77th and Broadway, questioned why “so many” of these individuals had to be housed together. Now people living near a Holiday Inn

In Florida, not only vehicles owned or driven by a person required to register as a sex offender are on the registry, but so too are the vehicles of anybody living with them or visiting their homes for 5 or more days. That means your spouse, your driver-age children, even your roommate will have their cars registered and identified as

Thanks to CAUTIONCLICK and Bill Dobbs for making sure we knew about this: On September 24, 2020, Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued an Order certifying a nationwide class of people incarcerated in state and federal prisons, and granting the plaintiffs’ motion for preliminary injunction requiring the U.S. Department of

I have been writing of the successes NARSOL has been achieving with their letters/emails to Patch.com.  After NARSOL’s press release signed by over 200 researchers, academics, treatment providers, including ATSA, and many others (FAC included), some states have disassociated from the Patch maps and articles from Halloween.  Connecticut and Massachusetts are still with them, but the word Halloween can no

Three individuals formerly convicted of sex offenses are challenging their continued confinement in a “residential treatment facility” (a prison-like confinement) because they could not find housing that was compliant with the state’s 1000 foot residency restrictions. From the Court’s summary of the case: The three challenge their indefinite detention in prison or prison-based residential treatment facilities (RTFs) after their prison