Florida Action Committee (FAC)

Today, at 1:30 PM, the Public Safety and Health Committee of the Miami-Dade Commission will meet to consider an amendment to a County Ordinance that would allow police to arrest homeless sex offenders on sight. The Florida Action Committee is in strong opposition to the proposed amendment and to the Miami-Dade County Sex Offender Residency Restriction itself. In anticipation of

Helping Others Successfully Transition (HOST) has posted a very useful table on their website, which shows each Florida County’s Sex Offender Residency Restriction. The table can be found here: http://www.hosttransitionservices.com/living-restrictions-florida Keep in mind, when using this table, that if a county does not show a SORR, the State SORR may still apply to you. Also keep in mind that if

Tomorrow, the Miami-Dade County Public Safety and Health Committee will consider a proposed amendment to the county’s “overnight camping” ordinance, which effectively enables police officers to arrest transient sex offenders on sight. More about the proposed change can be found here: https://floridaactioncommittee.org/miami-dade-commissioners-want-cops-to-arrest-homeless-sex-offenders-on-sight/ Our President, Gail, who was planning to speak on our behalf, was called out of state when her

Scarlet letters:  In a new essay Guy Hamilton-Smith opens with a wide view of this punishment-crazed country and then comes in for a close-up look at 21st century scarlet letters. The number of people forced to sign the sex offense registry continues to climb and is now close to 900,000.  Evidence mounts that registries do not improve public safety or

HARTFORD, CT — The public got a chance Monday to weigh in on three proposals that would change Connecticut’s criminal justice system in very different ways. One proposal would change which sex offenders would have to continue to appear on the sex offender registry, another proposes a constitutional amendment on pretrial release and detention, and a third would reduce a

A 69 year old man, who was arrested in 1999 was found murdered in his UK apartment. His daughter was also found dead. Authorities believe the daughter was killed after she walked in on the suspects as they were attempting to dismember her father’s body. There is speculation that the man was killed by two male vigilantes.