Florida Action Committee (FAC)

NAPLES, Fla. — A Golden Gate Estates woman whose stepfather molested her was horrified to learn he had moved into a house less than a mile from an Orlando elementary school. “It hit me like a ton of bricks,” Christin Olsen said. “It slapped me in the face.” A Florida law banning sex offenders from living within 1,000 feet of

To combat the order from the Northern District of Florida, Enjoining the enforcement of the 2014 amendments to the registration laws as they relate to “Internet Identifiers”, Florida Senator Baxley has sponsored a new internet identifier bill, which can be read here: http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2017/0686/BillText/Filed/PDF http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2017/0684/BillText/Filed/PDF FAC is considering its position on this bill and will advise shortly.

MINNEAPOLIS — Lawyers for over 700 people committed indefinitely to the Minnesota Sex Offender Program are asking the full 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider a three-judge panel’s ruling that the program is constitutional. The appeals panel last month reversed a lower court’s ruling that the program violates offenders’ rights because hardly anyone is ever released. Attorneys in

We have been informed that a company out of Texas called “CLEARMYCASE.COM” has been soliciting individuals on the Florida Registry claiming they might be able to help them “deregister” and charging a $100 “consultation fee”. Please do not fall for this scam.    

In my previous posting to this site, “Is it Automatically OK to Hate Sex Offenders?,” I discussed the various types of sexual offenders, noting that some are more likely to respond to treatment and less likely to reoffend than others. In this follow-up article, I discuss the fact that even though not all sex offenders are created equally, they are