Florida Action Committee (FAC)

If you are a registered sex offender or predator and were denied entry into a shelter in Broward County or not provided with any means to seek aid or shelter because of your registration status. Please contact [email protected].

Registered sex offenders across Florida might have a hard time finding safe shelter as Hurricane Irma begins pummeling the state Sunday. Many shelters across Florida were at capacity over the weekend, and few had let in sex offenders. Some were told to report to their nearest prison or jail, while others were shunned, according to local reports. Florida’s efforts to police its

Florida sheriff who threatened arrests at shelters is sued threatened arrests at shelters is sued. A man who claims he was denied entry to a shelter unless he underwent a background check is suing Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, who got national attention after saying on Twitter he would jail anyone with an outstanding warrant who tried to seek shelter

A proposal to end the lifetime listing of many convicted sex offenders on a public registry in California was revived Friday when its author put the language in a separate bill, bypassing a committee that shelved the measure last week. Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) took a bill he authored that would extend the hours of bars in the state, gutted

An Indiana Court of Appeals on Thursday heard the case of John Doe, et al. v. The Boone County Prosecutor, et al., 06A01-1612-PL-02741, which the ACLU of Indiana brought on behalf of three John Doe registered sex offenders who under Indiana Code 35-42-4-14, prohibits them from entering school property or enter a building that provides programming for children under three