Florida Action Committee (FAC)

About 100 sex offenders who have completed their sentences are being kept in prison because the 1000 foot residency restrictions leave them without any possible release residence. A class-action lawsuit in NY against the corrections department and the agency that manages city shelters was filed this week, according to a Wall Street Journal article on behalf of registered citizens in

Every so often, we like to reach out to the inhabitants of the homeless encampment by the railroad tracks in Miami, through our site, to let them know they are not forgotten. There are currently two hundred fifty (250) human beings forced to live outdoors, without shelter, without bathrooms and without potable water, alongside railroad tracks in a warehouse district

Registrant Travel Action Group (RTAG – www.registranttag.org), an RSOL affiliate organized to protect the international travel rights for lawful travel of registrants, is putting together a travel matrix, to serve as a snapshot guide to warn which countries you may have difficulty traveling to. Since the US is now sending out travel alerts whenever a registered citizen travels, you need

When Ken Thornsberry was in high school, he did something a lot of high school students do: He had sex with his teenage girlfriend. As a result, he spent the bulk of his early adulthood behind bars. Thornsberry was an 18-year-old senior when he met his high school girlfriend, Emily Lester, who was a 14-year-old freshman at the time. The

FORT LAUDERDALE — A Broward County Sheriff’s deputy who was arrested on more than two dozen child porn charges died Wednesday night after shooting himself, according to the sheriff’s office. Sgt. Kreg Costa, 42, was rushed to a Broward County Medical Center on Wednesday after suffering a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at 11:27 p.m., according to the

In a 24 page order that was issued Friday, the Judge in our Seminole County proximity ordinance challenge DENIED Seminole County and their Sheriff’s Motion to Dismiss our lawsuit! The lawsuit, in which Florida Action Committee is plaintiff, was brought by the Florida Institutional Legal Services Project of Florida Legal Services on behalf of our organization and the registered citizens