Florida Action Committee (FAC)

Today, CBS12 put out another scare piece that begins, “Our schools and playgrounds have become a home for sex offenders.” With no shortage of inflammatory statements, such as “registered offenders are eyeing schools too”, “offenders are also getting creative” and “it sounds frightening because it is”, the piece omits all objectivity. They write, “three years later transient sex offenders in

The turd of a news piece put out by CBS12 on Monday, entitled “Why are Sex Offenders Allowed Online?” has been edited on their site. If you monitor our website, you probably saw this post on Monday, in which we pointed out some glaring and inflammatory lies contained in the original CBS12 report. We asked FAC members to hold CBS12

With the election of Donald Trump, reporters who follow criminal justice reform expect a harder line on issues of crime and sentencing. Trump ran as a law-and-order President who will cut crime–though long-term crime rates have fallen dramatically since the early 1990s. On sex crime policy, if the new administration is serious, they should pay attention to new research showing

The following are excerpts from a 2nd DCA case that was decided today in Alvarado v. Florida. We believe it demonstrates Courts’ recognition that Sex Offender Residency Restrictions are a problem the legislature needs to address. “The dilemma facing sexual predators and offenders upon their release from prison was largely created by the legislature, albeit enhanced by county ordinances;and a

Lester Packingham posted something to Facebook thanking God for beating a traffic ticket. The post wasn’t offensive, didn’t threaten anyone, contained nothing inherently criminal and was probably more benign than some of the stuff our president elect posts to his own social media account, but Mr. Packingham was convicted of a crime for that post. Why? Because Packingham is a

In America, should sexual predators be given the opportunity to communicate on the Internet when it is possible they may message our children? Sex offenders are arguing that the First Amendment shields them from being blocked from social media websites that children utilize. The Supreme Court will soon rule on whether the First Amendment, in fact, does this. In America,