Florida Action Committee (FAC)

We regularly like to post reminders of the scams out there that continue to target persons on the registry. If you are a regular reader of our forum, you already know this, but if we can prevent one person from being scammed out of thousands of dollars, it’s worth the redundancy. So, I guess it is that time of year

Omaha police announced the arrest of James Fairbanks, who was arrested on suspicion of criminal homicide in the death of 64-year-old Mattieo Condoluci. Condoluci was found shot to death in his home this past weekend. Police arrested Fairbanks after he was linked to an an anonymous email sent to the media. The email claimed Condoluci was shot because he was

Below are two excerpts from article on the “memorial laws” and how they shaped society’s psyche and created a “stranger danger panic” nearly 40 years ago, that still remains today. The ACLU and others raised concerns that some memorial laws were too far-reaching, and had implications that were not being thoroughly discussed — including potentially increasing the likelihood that an

Kudos to our media committee for getting this point in the Daytona Beach News Journal ___ I just recently read the opinion article that was posted on May 8 concerning the subject of sex offenders — registered citizens. I was set back by several of Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly’s comments but especially his final comment on “safer Florida” and

In a letter to the attorneys in Does v. Miami Dade County, the Sex Offender Residency Restriction case that is currently before the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, the court notified that due to the Coronavirus, the Oral Arguments scheduled for the week of June 9, 2020 (when the case was scheduled to be heard) will either proceed on the

Yesterday, a Federal District Court in Tennessee found that the Tennessee Sex Offender Registry, as applied to the Plaintiff, violates the Constitution. The Court found; that the restrictions of SORVTA are much like traditional punishments of shaming, banishment, and probation, particularly when those restrictions are imposed for life, that the registry imposes an affirmative disability or restraint on Plaintiff, that