Florida Action Committee (FAC)

The Florida Legislative Sites; myfloridahouse.gov and flsenate.gov can offer some useful public information on the status of Bills. Since those affecting registrants are on our radar, we wanted to update our members on some of the considerations that are going on as the bill progresses. Aside from being able to pull the Bill text itself and read the redlined revisions,

Here’s the fact: A 32 year old teacher in Hahnville, LA has sex with their 16 year old student. Ordinarily this person would get 20 years in prison and probably some extra time because they were in a position of authority. Ordinarily the prison sentence would be followed by a harsh life sentence on the registry. In this case, however,

The following report came out yesterday on WUFT news. Levy County Florida has decided to completely ban sex offenders from school (parents or not) events and has posted notices on the properties. The article is neither good nor bad, but it highlights several things which we will comment on inline and IN CAPS.       Levy County Schools Warn

Broward County is looking to further regulate taxi and limo drivers. The Sun Sentinel reports today that a number of taxi drivers have criminal and driving records which should preclude them from working as a taxi driver or chauffeur. The story cites a number of different individuals who have been convicted of certain offenses and suggests they should not be

Last week we posted about a bill concerning privacy rights and drones. To get their bill to pass, one legislator suggested that sex offenders might use drones to leer at children. While this really happened, the post was intended to be satirical, but at the same time a serious illustration of how legislators are using the “sex offender” hysteria to

MARCO ISLAND, Fla. – Keep sex offenders out! That’s the message from Marco Island. The city might ban sex offenders from living 2,500 feet from where kids live, play and go to school. But, on an area as small as Marco Island, does that mean sex offenders will be banished completely? As safe as Marco Island is to raise her