FAC Letter to Facebook

Below is the text of a letter sent by FAC to Facebook:   Facebook, Inc.                                                                                                            SENT VIA EMAIL Attn: Legal Department                                                                                           [email protected] 1 Hacker Way Menlo Park, California 94025    RE:         YOUR POLICY ON PERSONS REQUIRED TO REGISTER  To Whom It May Concern: The Florida Action Committee, Inc. (FAC) is a non-profit, public safety advocacy organization comprised

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CA: Organization protecting sex offenders’ rights continues statewide lawsuit campaign, sues Lompoc

An organization dedicated to protecting the rights of registered sex offenders is ion a campaign to sue cities throughout California with ordinances in place that it believes are unconstitutional. The city of Lompoc is one of the group’s most recent targets. Attorney Janice Bellucci, who is the founder and executive director of Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws, and anonymous

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Only in Florida: Is Mark Foley staging a political comeback?

For those who don’t know, Mark Foley was a member of the US House of Representatives representing Florida’s 16th District between 1995 and 2006… that is until it was discovered that he was texting and instant messaging sexually suggestive and lewd messages to teenage boys who were serving as congressional pages. When the messages became public, he was pressured to

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Residency Restrictions by State (for persons required to register as sex offenders)

The following table was extracted from a 2018 study entitled, “Sex offender residence restrictions and sex crimes against children: A comprehensive review” by Joanne Savage and Casey Windsor. It is a useful resource to determine which States have a Sex Offender Residency Restriction (SORR) and against who they apply. Please note that these are STATE restrictions. Municipalities (County and City)

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Interesting info on Jeffrey Epstein’s Sex Offense Crimes and Sentencing

  Weekly Update #37 Dear Members and Advocates, To stay on top of current events impacting our advocacy work, we set up filters that scan the search engines for keywords relevant to our cause. Among the keywords are the ones you would expect, including “Sex offender and Florida”. This week, as you might imagine, our inbox was filled with headlines

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The Long, Slow path of Progress for True Sex Offender Law Reform in the US

Weekly Update #36 Dear Members and Advocates, On June 12th the cluster of homeless persons required to register was forced to move again. This is the same group that has been shuffled from under the Julia Tuttle Causeway, then kicked out of Shorecrest, then kicked out of the encampment on 27th Avenue, then kicked out from the Railroad Tracks, now

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