Florida Action Committee (FAC)

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Last week we were contacted by a member in Illiniois, Carol, with a heart-breaking story. Carol is the mother of two children, a son and a daughter. Carol’s son, Adam, suffers from Intellectual and Developmental Disability (IDD – what was formerly referred to as “mentally retarded”). As she described it, “even though [her] son is in a man’s body, his

For years, California law required psychotherapists to report any patient who admitted developing, duplicating, printing or exchanging material depicting an obscene act involving a child. The therapists accepted that requirement. They regarded it as an obligation to report producers and distributors of child pornography. But when the Legislature amended the law in 2014 to reflect new technology, many therapists balked,

State Rep. Bobby DuBose filed House Bill 837 which would grant early release to a prisoner who is suffering from “a significant terminal or non terminal condition, disease, or syndrome that has rendered the inmate so physically or cognitively impaired, debilitated, or incapacitated as to create a reasonable probability that the inmate does not constitute a danger to himself or

Fourteen current and former inmates of a federal women’s prison in Florida have filed a federal lawsuit saying guards subjected them to unending sexual abuse and threats. When the inmates tried to report the misconduct, the suit alleges, they were shuttled off to a county jail or put in solitary confinement. The lawsuit, first reported by the Miami Herald, accuses