Florida Action Committee (FAC)

Since 2014, a colony of homeless sex offenders has been rapidly growing by the railroad tracks near Hialeah. Nobody wants them there, including the dozens who call the ramshackle camp home. Everyone, from the Homeless Trust to the ACLU to the county commission, agrees the encampment is a public health and safety hazard. But for years, the sex offenders have

This past Friday night, the Florida Action Committee honored attorney and activist, Jeanne Baker, with what will become the first of our annual humanitarian awards. The award will be named in her honor. Jeanne has practiced in the area of civil liberties litigation and criminal defense for more than four decades. Throughout that time she has been an active participant

In a disappointing decision that came out the eve of a deadline imposed by the lower court, The 11the Circuit Court of Appeal granted Governor Rick Scott a stay pending appeal. The opinion, which itself was disheartening (and can be read here: http://media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/files/201811388.pdf) maintains the status quo until the appeal is decided. That means that hundreds of thousands of individuals’s

Talk about waiting until the last minute… Florida Governor Rick Scott has scheduled a meeting tonight of the state’s Board of Executive Clemency to address Judge Walker’s order out of the Northern District of Florida that they revamp their process for restoring felon’s voting rights by the 26th of April. For those who don’t have a calendar handy, today is

The NJ Supreme Court ruled that people convicted of sex crimes before their 18th birthday can petition a court to be removed from the state’s registry 15 years after they have been offense free. The Court found a portion of NJ’s Megan’s Law unconstitutional because it requires juveniles to remain listed on the state’s sex offender registry for life. The