Florida Action Committee (FAC)

[FAC NOTE: We must organize a group to create a vocal opposition to the proposed SORR. If you live in Volusia County, please contact membership so we can coordinate.] There are more sex offenders moving to New Smyrna Beach and that has prompted city leaders to consider shrinking the locations where both sexual offenders and sexual predators can legally live.

The North Carolina Supreme Court has just struck down lifetime GPS-monitoring for persons required to register as sex offenders who are not on parole or probation as unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment (Search and Seizure). The importance of this case is that the court considered evidence of low recidivism among registrants generally, notwithstanding unsupported legislative findings to the contrary, and

Since Jeffrey Epstein died this past Saturday, we’ve really been holding back on writing anything about it for fear of contributing to a practice we’ve always discouraged; perpetuating personal theories or myths. As people required to register, we absolutely do not want anyone to jump to conclusions about us without knowing all the facts. Since this has been the biggest

This was actually a decent story from Fox News. It makes the general point that the registry is not working and the confusing patchwork of different state laws and local restrictions makes compliance and enforcement impossible. Here are some excerpts: Amid the fallout from the death of Jeffrey Epstein – compounded by sharp questions as to why he was able to live

I just read a story in My San Antonio about a man who died after he was hit by cars while trying to run across a highway. I get to the end of the story and they add that the man was “listed as a registered sex offender in Texas. He was convicted of sexually assaulting a 28-year-old woman in

The following are excerpts from a Miami Herald Opinion piece on the murders of persons required to register as sex offenders in prison. “[W]e know violence and abuse in prisons aren’t always the result of supervisory vacuums. In fact, deaths of people accused of sex offenses are rarely accidental; they’re highly choreographed and implicitly endorsed executions. The AP found that,