Florida Action Committee (FAC)

Inmates in Florida Prisons are planning a strike. The peaceful demonstration, called “Operation Push” will protest the inhumane and unconscionable conditions in Florida Prisons. The strike is scheduled to begin Monday, January 15th, to coincide with Martin Luther King Day. For too long, Florida prisons have subjected its inmates to barbarous conditions. Most have no air conditioning, despite Florida summer

Lauren Book, Daughter of Lobbyist Ron Book, Founder of ‘Lauren’s Kids’ one of the State’s highest funded charities, advocate for punitive sex offender registration laws and State Senator, has sponsored some bills that will be on our radar and we will be opposing this legislative session. SB 1214 Creates a Rebittable presumption of dangerousness to a child if a parent

(CNN) The online ad was pretty blunt: “Dominate [sic] male police officer seeks fun, discreet, sub playmate — m4w.” Before long, that officer got a response from a purported 14-year-old girl. And the age didn’t dissuade him, authorities said. “… everyone has to have a first time,” the officer responded, according to a criminal complaint. “… you will just have

Two decades of research regarding the effects of sex offender laws have produced no evidence that such laws achieve their stated purposes. A recent review of research on community notification and residency restriction laws in the Oxford Handbook of Sex Offences and Sex Offenders concludes that such legislation is “misinformed and simply incorrect.” These laws are knee-jerk reactions to hysteria