Florida Action Committee (FAC)

Florida Rep. Mike Caruso, yesterday filed House Bill 1129, that would require all home-delivery workers to undergo background checks that include the sex offender registry and would make any home delivery jobs off limits to anyone on the registry. https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1129/BillText/Filed/PDF More to come from our legislative committee, but we will naturally take all steps to oppose this Bill.

Vicki Henry sits at the desk in her two-bedroom duplex on a recent Sunday morning and adjusts her phone headset, which she has nestled on hair with a deep magenta tinge, a rare bit of pizazz for the 72-year-old grandmother of three. Everyone else in Henry’s working-class neighborhood of Arnold, a southern suburb of St. Louis, is probably at church

Woman and 6 children attacked and vandalized because of registrant family member. What’s equally disgusting is the reporter’s suggestion that somehow the man’s children are in danger because of HIM!  

People convicted of sex crimes generally do not reoffend. The Office of Policy and Management released two studies, one in 2012 and the other in 2017, that analyzed crimes committed by sex offenders released five years earlier. Those studies found that 3.6% of people convicted of a sex crime were arrested for another by 2011, and 4.1% were rearrested by

Repeat and high-risk sex offenders would be banned from the MTA tranist system under a new law proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The NYPD announced support for the ban when Cuomo suggested it in March of 2019. The ban would apply to offenders for three years and blocks them from the subway, bus and rail systems. The Legal Aid Society

Winter Springs Florida’s ABC Affiliate, WFTV, reported about a sexual assault yesterday. In that report they quoted Senator Linda Stewart as saying “The problem that we have with the [sex] offenders is that they are going to offend again.” Really?!?! Perhaps Senator Stewart and WFTV need an education on actual recidivism rates. If anyone has a moment today, please reach