Florida Action Committee (FAC)

Firstly, let us say that FAC strongly opposes sexual violence and nothing contained in this opinion piece is intended to condone the action of the a**h*** we are about to write about. Secondly, FAC views the loss of life through any means as a tragedy, no matter the circumstances and no matter the person. Our foundation is built on affording

A City of Milwaukee ordinance passed by the Common Council in July 2014 is making it nearly impossible for former sex offenders to find housing. The ordinance restricts these ex-offenders from living within 2,000 feet of any school, licensed day care center, park, recreation trail or playground. As of Jan. 16, 2015, the city released a public notice listing 55

As if the FDLE site wasn’t enough, or all the private online registries were not enough, or all the news channels that have their own registries, or all the for-profit extortion sites that post registrants’ information and charges a fee to remove it… the city of Treasure Island thinks it needs to advertise registrants on television. The Tampa Bay Times

This week, the Florida Action Committee is exhibiting at the Smart Justice Summit in Sarasota, FL. The purpose of the Smart Justice Summit is to bring together stakeholders in justice and corrections to “place greater advocacy emphasis on changes to improve public safety while reducing costs to the taxpayers.” Below are some pictures from the Summit.      

Hold onto your Fourth Amendment rights, folks, a new kind of racial profiling is coming to America. Because, really, why would a group of young Asian women come here if not to enter the sex trade? At least that seems to be the attitude of U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials, who detained the South Korean pop band Oh My Girl at

The Washington Post released an article entitled “The Biggest Pinocchios of 2015”, describing the most outrageous lies of the past year. Sex Trafficking statistics received a special honor on this list for just how clearly bogus they have been represented. Fact checkers evaluated the veracity of several claims over the past year (mostly coming from politicians) to see what were