Florida Action Committee (FAC)

The below post appeared on the “With Justice for All” blog and contained one of the most striking points I’ve read in a while: “When an adult man is duped by a 15-year-old girl into believing she is 18, he will be prosecuted for the reality, not for what he believed. But if that same man is duped by an

Last week a Judge in Illinois declared their requirement that registered citizens register all internet sites a registrant uses to be unconstitutional. The judge, in his opinion, quoted an earlier Nebraska federal court decision on the same issue, which held that ordering a sex offender to report all access to Internet sites “clearly chills offenders from engaging in expressive activity

1,000 feet is 1,000 feet, right?  Apparently not when measuring how far away sex offenders can live from parks and schools.  An NBC2 investigation uncovers differences in the way the state and local law enforcement agencies measure that distance. [FAC COMMENT: THANKS FOR MAKING A VERY VALID POINT FOR US. THESE ORDINANCES ARE VAGUE AND ARBITRARILY APPLIED, WHICH MAKE THEM

Over the past couple of days the story of Matt Gaetz (son of Don Gaetz who coined the “scorched earth for sex offenders” phrase) called in to a Sirius XM talk show on politics and admitted that the Florida registry might need some reform. There are two significant events which formed the catalyst of the admission that sex offender laws

HMMMMM…. I WONDER WHAT THESE POLICE AGENCIES WERE GOING TO DO WITH A SOFTWARE THAT ALLOWS YOU TO SPY ON PEOPLE WITHOUT A WARRANTY?   MIAMI (AP) — An Italian company that sells surveillance software to governments and law enforcement agencies worldwide is negotiating to provide a Florida police agency with spyware technology that infiltrates phones and computers, according to

TALLAHASSEE – Florida legislators might consider tweaking the state’s sex-offender law after the prosecution of a couple seen having a midday romp on the beach, radio talk-show caller “Matt from Fort Walton Beach” said on the air Tuesday. “I think we may look at those instances where you don’t have someone who is harmed by the offense, as much as