Florida Action Committee (FAC)

One sentence in a 1986 mass-market magazine continues to sway court cases involving sex offenders. By Steven Yoder In the early 1980s, rehabilitation counselor Robert Longo could hardly have known that his work with convicted sex offenders would make him a minor celebrity. At the time, he was running a program at the Oregon State Hospital to treat and rehabilitate

Join California RSOL in protesting International Megan’s Law (IML), the law to prevent Registrant international travel, at the U.S. District Court in Oakland, California, July 27, 2016. The government has led a motion to dismiss our lawsuit against IML, the recently signed law by President Obama, to keep Registered citizens in permanent internal exile. The court hearing for that motion

OK… so a company believes they have the technology to determine, within 80% accuracy, whether someone is a terrorist or a pedophile! Not only is this absurdity true, but apparently they already signed a contract with our government. More evidence that the US will flush money on BS! Hmmm, wonder which politician is making money on this one?

Attorneys for Miami-Dade filed an Answer Brief this week in our Sex Offender Residency Restriction Challenge currently in front of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. A copy of the brief can be found here: https://floridaactioncommittee.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/160523-Appellees-Answer-Brief.pdf Since this forum can be accessed publicly, we’ll reserve comment on the strengths and weaknesses of the government’s argument – we’ll leave that to

If you get a chance, read this article in the International Business Times and think about Florida’s requirement to register vehicles of people who live with registrants… it’ll scare the hell out of you. The article begins by describing a 2013 operation in California nicknamed “Operation Find Ickey”, where a police officer, armed with a license plate scanner, parked himself

It’s such an ugly word. Like “phlegm” or “fetus”. Just the word itself makes people cringe with disgust and that’s the response lawmakers and media want when talking about registered citizens, so “pedophile” is often what they call them. Unfortunately, it’s not accurate at all when describing most sex offenders. Pedophiles (as defined by the fifth Diagnostic and Statistical Manual