Florida Action Committee (FAC)

Last week it was announced that Florida-based Correct Care Recovery Solutions will be operating the new Civil Commitment Center in West Texas. Correct Care Recovery Solutions is a misnomer. it implies that what’s being done is “correct”, that those housed there are receiving “care”, that they are working towards “recovery” and that their program provides a “solution”. Actually, CCRS is

This is a must watch: http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/03/us/dating-app-sex-offender-registry/index.html Hopefully it will be a catalyst for public conversation, which really needs to happen!  

Quantico, Va. — More than 30 years ago, the Federal Bureau of Investigation launched a revolutionary computer system in a bomb shelter two floors beneath the cafeteria of its national academy. Dubbed the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program, or ViCAP, it was a database designed to help catch the nation’s most violent offenders by linking together unsolved crimes. A serial rapist

Hand Up Ministries, an Oklahoma City nonprofit agency that seeks to help sex offenders re-enter society, has faced challenges after a 2012 law added manufactured homes to the list of living quarters where two or more sex offenders could not live together. David Nichols drives through his trailer park on the southeast side of Oklahoma City surveying the seemingly constant

A South Daytona registered citizen was accused of soliciting a teen in a bathroom of a party venue at a local mall. Allegedly, a 15 year old boy was at a birthday party at the venue, went to use the bathroom, someone made suggestive gestures under the stall. The boy and his father followed the suspect until he slipped away,

Sharon Denniston, a PhD candidate in public policy is doing a study on registrants to present at the ATSA conference. She is in need of additional participants who meet certain requirements. Her post is below:     Folks, Good news!  I have enough participants in my control group now!    Also, I was thrilled to get 4 new registrant or