Florida Action Committee (FAC)

Sat., Mar. 10, 12-3 p.m. West Regional Library 8601 West Broward Boulevard Plantation, Florida 33324 This year’s dynamic speakers will talk about civil liberties issues that will affect Floridians in the months ahead. Panelists include: Howard Simon, ACLU of Florida executive director, will discuss the ACLU’s nationwide resistance efforts to the Trump agenda over the past year, and the work

The Supreme Court of the US has agreed to hear a sex offender case., Gundy v. United States. The issues in the case are: (1) Whether convicted sex offenders are “required to register” under the federal Sex Offender Notification and Registration Act while in custody, regardless of how long they have until release; (2) whether all offenders convicted of a

The following is an EXCELLENT article published in The Hill.   The Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that at least 95 percent of all state prisoners will be released from prison at some point. However, convicted sex-offenders almost exclusively face the vengeful, additional punishment of registration under the Sex Offender Registry and Notification Act (SORNA). SORNA violates our nation’s founding documents by singling

Since he had his supervision transferred to his home state of Wisconsin in late 2016, McCormick has been repeatedly thrown in jail. He lost a job. And he continues to be disturbed by corrections officials calling him — sometimes in the middle of the night. McCormick says these barriers to reintegrating into the community stem from a GPS ankle bracelet,

Ten percent of offenders scramble to find places to plug in bracelets, some cut them off, and local laws make it hard for released sex offenders to find housing Ten percent of monitored offenders homeless DOC data show that of the 1,258 offenders on GPS monitoring in January, 131 had no permanent place to live. This means about one in

Lauren Book pulled one of her own bills at the last minute (no, it is not the horrible SB1226), an action that mystified other legislators and victims who were pushing for it’s passage. The bill would have allowed survivors to sue businesses that willingly and knowingly turn a blind eye to trafficking. For that illicit industry, that mostly meant motels