Florida Action Committee (FAC)

CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. (WSVN) — A South Florida parole officer was arrested after being accused of sexually assaulting a woman on probation, and the victim said she has video to prove it. According to police, 50-year-old Zachary Thomas Bailey used his authority to target the victim, telling her he needed to do a “study” of her home in Coral Springs.

Members in Jacksonville have reported that on recent compliance checks, the Sheriffs office have been requiring registered citizens to sign the following notification: https://floridaactioncommittee.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Sexual_Offener-Predator_Prohibited_Activity_Notification.pdf Among other restrictions are that registrants are not allowed to participate in holiday activities where children are present (other than their own family) and registrants are required to hang a sign outside their home on Halloween,

Vivid story at Al Jazeera America about how our sex offender laws punish more than just the convicted. Take “Kat,” a 16-year-old who left the United States with her family for a country she won’t name for fear that she will become a target of intimidation or worse. Her father is on a state sex offender registry after being found

The State of New York is joining the growing number of States which are questioning their Civil Commitment programs. New York, which reportedly, “is spending more than $200,000 annually for each civilly confined sex offender in New York facilities “with those numbers (of offenders) rising every year.” Civil Commitment is a program whereby someone who has committed a sexual offense

I LOVE IT!!!!! A Registered Citizen from Washington, DC, tired of the harassment of the registry, decided to create his own online registry of those who contribute to making his life difficult. He created the Idiot’s Registry www.idiotsregistry.info, which features people in his registration office and others responsible for the registry. The courts decided his website was constitutionally protected speech

In March, we were contacted by Attorney Amy Belger from Massachusetts. Ms. Belger was working on an Amicus Brief to be filed in the case of Doe v. City of Lynn, on behalf of registered citizens in the City of Lynn Massachusetts who were subject to a residency restriction. Since Florida had been the “birthplace” of the residency restriction and