Florida Action Committee (FAC)

This Wisconsin opinion piece makes a good argument: Consider for a moment how the government treats sex offenders. Sex offenders are viewed as a great danger to children since the crimes they commit ruin children’s lives. The potential for recidivism being high, the laws governing sex offenders heavily regulate the lives of these criminals after they have served their sentences.

A North Escambia man was charged with failure to register after he moved from FL to Georgia without registering. He was sentenced to 130 months in prison! That’s over 10 years for a registration violation!!! While it was his third registration violation, the underlying offense for which he has to register was in 1994, over 20 years ago! With no

Just as FAC is the Florida affiliate of National RSOL, another subgroup has been created under National to address concerns specific to international travel. Registrant Travel Action Group, Inc. was recently formed. Although it is based out of Texas, a board member of FAC has been named a director of that national organization. From time to time we will repost

Frustrated by the gridlock in Congress, John Walsh is headed back to Capitol Hill. And this time, the former longtime “America’s Most Wanted” host says he’s ready to name names in order to get lawmakers to reauthorize a bill named after his son. “The Adam Walsh Act is stuck in that morass of Capitol Hill that’s only focused in on

Sex offenders can not be subjected to punishments under newly created laws if they committed their offense and served their time before the legislation was passed, the state Supreme Court ruled in a 4-3 decision Monday. In 1986, George Riley was convicted of aggravated sexual assault on a minor and given a 20-year sentence. About six months after his release

Daytona Beach registrants should be up in arms over this one! A local hospital, Halifax Health, has set up a new system to scan IDs for Sex Offenders. According to this article, “The process will take less than a minute and the system will screen visitors to see if they are on the sexual offender list…Sex offenders will be denied