Florida Action Committee (FAC)

Last week the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion affirming the civil commitment of a person for mental health issues. In the opinion, the Appeals Court found that the trial court did not err in committing the defendant to the Attorney General’s custody until he no longer posed a danger to the community due to his mental disease

The Fifth District Appellate (state) Court found the state did not provide enough evidence that a man had to continually register as a sexual offender on the date of his offense. In a decision that’s not the easiest to comprehend, the court ruled that the state failed to provide any evidence that his 10 year period of registration was tolled

  National Review | Aug. 23, 2018   The Last Victim One man caught in the day-care hysteria decades ago still seeks justice   By Rael Jean Isaac   On January 23, 2014, the Florida Parole Commission sent Frank Fuster a letter informing him that, owing to a recent policy change, it had determined that his initial interview was scheduled

The polygraph as applied: Are we focusing on technology at the expense of everything else that works? Posted: 22 Aug 2018 11:51 AM PDT By David S. Prescott, LICSW, Kieran McCartan, Ph.D., &Alissa Ackerman, Ph.D.   Nothing divides the professional and academic community that works in the field of sexual abuse quite like the polygraph. It is a debate that has went

SOURCE WEST CHESTER >> A Common Pleas Court judge has ruled that a Chester County man convicted of forcing himself sexually on a sleeping woman will not have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life. In an order signed July 10, Judge Anthony Sarcione found that the law that defendant George Torsilieri was required to

On October 2, 2018, the Supreme Court of the United States is scheduled to hear oral arguments in Gundy v. United States, A “sex offender” case. Reporter Amy Howe on SCOTUSBlog described the issue in the case as, “whether the law improperly delegates to the U.S. attorney general authority to decide whether SORNA’s registration requirements should apply to sex offenders