Florida Action Committee (FAC)

This weekend, Netflix’s series, ‘Orange is the New Black’ began and for those of you who didn’t spend the weekend binge-watching, I’ll share with you a couple of highlights that relate to registered citizens. First, if you have been in solitary and without any connection to the outside world for the past few years, the series is about life inside

FAC was fortunate to be able to send a board member to the National Seminar on Federal Sentencing. The seminar was an opportunity for criminal defense attorneys, judges and other stakeholders to get together and chime in on the state of federal sentences. Below are the meeting notes from FAC’s attendance at the meeting. Thanks to Barb M. for preparing

“His harshest punishment is a lifetime on the sex offender registry” Wait a minute… did someone say the sex offender registry is “the harshest punishment”? Yes, someone did! San Francisco Gate writer Debra Saunders said so in an opinion piece on why Brock Turner, the Stanford University student only got three years for sexually assaulting another student. She opined, that

June 7 — Sa-id Abdullah, 59, doesn’t deny that he committed a low-level sex offense when he was addicted to drugs in 1987. Yet when he pled guilty in 1991 in connection with an acrimonious divorce proceeding, he said he never envisioned the charge would brand him for almost 30 years. Six months away from completing his five years of

The State of NY may soon have a “terrorist registry” much like the sex offender registry. Their Senate, yesterday, passed legislation that would create a list of people convicted of terrorism and post their information publicly, so that the community and law enforcement can be aware of “somebody in their community that has been convicted of terrorism who still may