Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
Dear Members and Advocates, We Need Your Help to Reach the Vulnerable Among Us! FAC is currently working to connect with individuals on the registry — or their caregivers — who are elderly or have physical or mental impairments that make it difficult, or even impossible, to comply with Florida’s strict sex offender registration requirements. Florida’s registration laws are enforced
Read moreNinety-Seven percent of persons forced to register as sex offenders in Levy County, Florida were determined to be compliant after a “month’s long” investigation! Those we were arrested were not committing new sex offenses, but were arrested for technical violations of registration laws. That’s the news. But of course, that’s not what the story promoted. This article is titled, “7
Read moreAn Indiana man has been charged with murder after investigators say he shot and killed a sex offender who had recently been released from prison. Nicholas Stanley, 35, is accused of killing 35-year-old Allen Cogswell early Tuesday morning at the Daylite Inn on Cassopolis Street. According to The Goshen News, police confirmed that Cogswell was a sex offender who had
Read moreIn the latest installment of “Let’s Pretend This Will Make Us Safer,” the city of Joliet, Illinois is planning to construct a public park on an empty lot across from a group home housing 11 individuals on the sex offense registry. The land has long been vacant and unused, but now, conveniently, it’s becoming a park. One that just happens
Read moreDear Members and Advocates, The most significant update from this past week is an upsetting one. Last week, NARSOL (the National Association for Rational Sexual Offense Laws – of which FAC is the Florida affiliate) reported that it had been forced to cancel its 2025 Annual Conference, which was scheduled for June 26–29 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. According to NARSOL’s
Read moreWell, well, well… would you look at that? A couple of years ago Volusia County decided it was a great idea to expand residency restrictions for registered citizens from 1,000 feet to 1,500 feet. Because obviously, 1,000 feet just wasn’t safe enough, right? And what happened next? A massive drop in crime? Nope. More homelessness and less ability for law
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