Florida Action Committee (FAC)

MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee Common Council voted on Wednesday, September 6th to all but eliminate the city’s residency restrictions for sex offenders, and there’s one sex offender in particular who likely played a big role in the change. The council voted to remove a restriction as to where sex offenders can live. Currently, general sex offenders cannot live within 2,000

As residents of Florida are bracing down to prepare for Hurricane Irma, what is expected to be the strongest natural disaster to hit the Atlantic coast this century, Polk County Sheriff, Grady Judd, takes the time to post the following message to his Twitter account: What’s wrong with this guy? Please feel free to exercise your First Amendment right to

In the interest of time, we are asking members to contact their local probation office and Sheriff’s department to find out what provisions are being made for Registered Sex Offenders and Predators in each County/City. Since registrants are excluded from most emergency shelters and a significant proportion of this population are homeless, we strongly advise against waiting until the last

FAC NOTE: The article below is just more proof that we have nothing coming to us if we count on the legislators. Also note the idiotic reason; “it would cost tens of millions of dollars to make the change”. Really?!?! How about the tens of millions of dollars it costs to keep everyone on for life? _____ A bill that

Win in Colorado:  A federal judge declared Colorado’s sex offense registry law unconstitutional!  The court ruled the law is *punishment* and went even farther, finding the law is such severe punishment (“cruel and unusual”) that it violates the 8th Amendment.  In addition the court found the law fails to deliver constitutionally mandated basic fairness (“due process”) and violates the 14th