Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
FAC Weekly Update 2018-02-20 Dear Members and Advocates. Florida Sex Offender News. Two posts on our site this past week received a significant response. The first was about the tragic school shooting in Parkland. The second, concerned a father being denied entrance to a hospital for his son’s surgery because he’s a registered sex offender. While it may seem the
Read moreThe Florida House of Representatives was in session on Tuesday considering several issues. These included a motion to debate a bill banning the sale of assault weapons in the aftermath of the mass shooting that killed 17 people last week at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., and a resolution declaring pornography a public health risk. The House chose not
Read moreTwo weeks ago we told you about Florida’s Sunshine Law, which provides (or is supposed to provide) open access to public meetings. Last week, in the 2nd District Court of Appeals, the Court decided The City of St. Petersburg v. Wright, which invalidated at St Petersburg City ordinance because the commission’s consideration and discussion of the ordinance was done in
Read moreNews About Sex Offenders and Civil Commitment “Broken beyond anyone’s imagination” is how the State of Texas’ civil commitment program was described in this Southern Poverty Law Center article that was posted this weekend. The “civil commitment” scheme, which indefinitely confines (pretty much synonymous with “incarceration”) individuals under (a) the guise of treatment and (b) the belief that they may
Read moreFather on Sex Offender Registry Barred from Son’s Hospital A member contacted us this week. He’s on the registry for an offense that took place over 15 years ago. He brought his son to Nemours Children’s Hospital in Orlando for surgery and was denied access at the door because of his status on the registry. These policies that prevent former
Read moreNews About Florida Registered Sex Offenders The City of Ft. Lauderdale’s ordinance has caused more than half of the registered sex offenders in the city to be homeless. The City ordinance, which banishes sex offenders from; “within one thousand four hundred (1,400) feet of any of the following:(1) Any school where the majority of the population attending are students less
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