Florida Action Committee (FAC)

A New York law that is intended to protect children from convicted sex offenders has created a maze of contradictory policies and regulations, leading to inconsistent enforcement and confusing online tracking systems. The disparities have also resulted in sharply different residency requirements for offenders convicted of similar crimes and an increasingly perplexing system that makes it difficult for the public

“Shady” Grady Judd, sheriff of Polk County is at it again. Another name and shame opportunity for people required to register. This time it was “Operation Trick-or-Treat” a month-long operation that resulted in the arrest of 18 out of 1449 registrants (1.2%) in Polk County for petty technical registration violations. Way to go Grady!!! How much did that month-long operation

The Supreme Court of the United States have scheduled the following three cases for “relisting” Gundy v. United States, 17-6086 Paul v. United States, 17-8830 Caldwell v. United States, 18-6852 All cases have the same issue, “Whether the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act’s delegation to the Attorney General in 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) (formerly 42 U.S.C. § 16913(d)) violates

The following redacted letter was shared with us by a member.   Good Morning, My daughter attends 4th grade at local elementary school here in county. She has been enrolled there since kindergarten. A few weeks ago, as always, I participated in my daughter’s parent-teacher conference. This time, however, upon check in, I was required to have my driver’s license

As we write this and in the middle of pouring rain in Miami-Dade County, police are serving eviction notices to the cluster of registrants who are legislated into homelessness in Miami-Dade because of the Lauren Book Act. This cluster, which has been shuffled around for a decade, started because residency restrictions left them with nowhere compliant to live.Even prevented those

Five registrants have filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court challenging a new state law that allows all felons, except those convicted of a sex offense, to serve as jurors. According to the lawsuit, the new law violates the equal protection clause of the state’s constitution. The new law, which began as Senate Bill 310, did not initially exclude