Florida Action Committee (FAC)

The acclaimed documentary, ‘Pervert Park’ which features a community in Florida that caters to registered citizens, will be shown on PBS this Monday, July 11, 2016. We believe it will be a must see! You can find your local PBS station and schedule here: http://www.pbs.org/pov/tvschedule/#.V36MbTV5Jps

The note in my inbox was straightforward, and suicidal: “I don’t have much time left and that brings me some comfort. I can’t even imagine a life of freedom and happiness anymore. I hope my story will at least help people understand the grey areas of this stigma.” It was signed “Mikey,” short for Michael Pascal, age 33, a warehouse

When I first became a public defender, I believed the worst punishment that my clients would face would be time in jail. Since then, I’ve learned that incarceration is not the only — and perhaps not the worst — punishment the criminal justice system can impose. The registration requirements imposed on those convicted of sex offenses are unfairly harsh and

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Two new reports, including two from Dr. Jill Levenson, professor at Barry University in Miami and the foremost authority on sex offender residency restrictions, again reinforce the ineffectiveness and, in fact, counter-effectiveness of the Sex Offender Residency Restrictions. Please share these with your legislators. Journal of Social Work-2016-Levenson-SO Homelessness No Place to Call Home- Rethinking Residency Restrictions for Sex Offenders

CARSON CITY — The Nevada Supreme Court Friday put the brakes on a law that would impose new registration requirements on sex offenders and subject thousands of them to community notification. The order signed by Justices Michael Douglas, Michael Cherry and Mark Gibbons temporarily halts the Department of Public Safety from implementing the law and posting thousands of sex offender