Florida Action Committee (FAC)

By Vicky Pelaez Human rights organizations, as well as political and social ones, are condemning what they are calling a new form of inhumane exploitation in the United States, where they say a prison population of up to 2 million – mostly Black and Hispanic – are working for various industries for a pittance. For the tycoons who have invested in

If anyone feels compelled to write a thank you message to this representative after reading the below story, here is his email information: Representative Timothy Robertson (d) Email: [email protected]       A local lawmaker has sponsored several bills in the N.H. House of Representatives that would increase protections for people on the state’s registry of sex offenders. Rep. Timothy

FAC tries to make as much information about registration requirements as possible available on our site, floridaactioncommittee.org. Additionally, there are several online resources where you can find the information you are looking for. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement, who administers the registry, has a “Frequently Asked Question” page which answers a lot of the questions about the state-wide registry.

The following is an excerpt from a very insightful article by Maya Schenwar. The article, which discusses the “prison outside prison” world of electronic monitoring, house arrest and other forms of confinement outside of traditional prison, insight-fully equates the Sex Offender Registry to incarceration. —— Although the left-leaning among us may respond to secret data collection and hidden cameras with

Senate Bill 0336 was filed yesterday. There is an accompanying bill filed in the House the day before (H0387) The bill creates Florida Statutes 921.2312 and makes substantial edits to 948.30 and 948.31, the summaries of which are: –          If someone is found guilty of or pleads no contest to a sexual offense after 10/1/15 they should get referred to

***UPDATE*** The bill was not heard yesterday – We will advise when it will be scheduled.   The lifetime GPS bill will be discussed in the Senate Criminal Justice Subcommittee today. This is a horrible, nonsensical bill that will place everyone convicted of a “sex offense” on lifetime GPS after October, 2015. It makes no distinction between someone that looks