Florida Action Committee (FAC)

When several school officials in Mississippi wrote letters of support for a colleague convicted of a sexual offense, the public backlash was swift. Parents protested, students were pulled from classes, and calls for new policies erupted. But outrage over this situation does not justify policies that silence educators and public officials from exercising their First Amendment rights. Teachers and school

A popular juice shop in Richmond, Virginia closed after employees discovered that the owner’s brother had a Florida criminal record for sexual battery. According to reporting by WRIC, staff became aware of the brother’s history and raised concerns about his involvement in the business. As the situation developed, it appears the brother had worked for the business without being disclosed

In what is described as a “massive” five-day, dozen-agency online sting operation, the media highlights only 13 arrests. The “massive” operation, called “Operation Twelve Parsecs”, involved a dozen local, state, and federal agencies, including; the FDLE, Florida Highway Patrol, Florida Department of Agriculture, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), the United States Marshals Service, Escambia County Sheriff’s

Just one day after we posted “Why Didn’t the Registry Save Them?” comes a story out of Orlando that reads like déjà vu. A substitute teacher at Howard Middle School was arrested for a sexual act in the classroom. According to the report, the staffing agency that hired him ran his background through the National Sex Offender Registry and the

If the sex offender registry were really the public-safety panacea it’s billed as, how do we explain incidents like these recent headline stories? An agent from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was found to have taken up-skirt photos of a flight attendant mid-air. And a coach at a private Christian academy in Broward County was arrested for molesting students while