Florida Action Committee (FAC)

This story out of Jacksonville is the reason parents are being misinformed and a false sense of security is being created by the sex offender registry. Apparently, there have been two separate instances of child molestation in one trailer park committed this year. The tragic occurrences were committed by two unaffiliated men, neither of which were registered sex offenders! In

It’s a chilling image: the sex predator skulking in the shadows of a swing set, waiting to snatch a vulnerable child. Over the past two decades, that scenario has led to a wave of laws around the country restricting where people convicted of sex offenses may live — in many cases, no closer than 2,500 feet from schools, playgrounds, parks

Onerous sex offender registration laws have pulled together unlikely alliances. Victim advocates have begun standing up for sex offenders in litigation and legislative battles across the country. Chris Dornin, a former New Hampshire State House reporter, wrote in an article for Corrections Magazine detailing the efforts of Cleveland and Texas rape crisis centers toward dismantling Ohio’s residency restriction law. The

The Constitution’s ex post facto clause prohibits passing a law that retroactively increases the punishment for a criminal act that an offender committed before the law was passed. But in an ingenious 2003 Supreme Court ruling, a 6-3 conservative majority held that retroactive placement on a state sex offender registry–being put on a registry that was created after an offender

Amid a growing national debate over sex offender registries, researchers who studied years of crime data from Baltimore County have released a new finding: Neighborhoods with more registered sex offenders experienced fewer reported sex offenses. The researchers from Princeton University and the University of Michigan, who chose Baltimore County because it was the first place they found where they could

For those of you who attended our Member Call last night (there were 52 of you, so thanks!), we received a proposal and overview from Attorney Val Jonas, who will be representing FAC and our members in our legal challenge to the requirement to register our internet identifiers. We need to raise at least $10,000 to initiate this challenge and