Florida Action Committee (FAC)

Sunday’s story by The News-Journal’s Lyda Longa, Frank Fernandez and John Gallas seemed a particularly apt table-setter for Halloween: Two seedy motels in Volusia County cater exclusively to registered sex offenders. The immediate reaction is to recoil in horror as if overturning a rock and discovering a nest of creepy-crawlers. The next is to worry about public safety. However, housing

Registered sex offender Frank Lindsay, left, and lawyer Janice Bellucci are challenging the constitutionality of sex offender ordinances in cities around the state. Photo by Daniel Dreifuss By Joe Nelson, The Sun A crusading civil rights attorney and a registered sex offender have partnered in a legal battle that has prompted dozens of California cities to repeal or revise what

After learning that Seminole County has a similar “no go” law to Brevard’s, we started to look into how arduous this law really is. Attached are two documents that were provided to us by a member in Seminole County (thank you for these). The first is the Seminole County ordinance and the second is a map that is given to

ATLANTA, Oct. 8, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Florida State Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights (Committee or SAC) has released its report on ex-felon voting rights.  In its report to the Commission, the Florida SAC independently estimates that the total number of persons in the state disenfranchised from voting ranges from 600,000 to 1.2 million persons,

Source: Free Range Kids   Dear Free-Range Kids:  My late father’s occupation, and love, was teaching mobility to blind students. He was employed by the school district and taught blind, k-12 students how to move about in the community. The “classroom” consisted of busy intersections, the mall, the post office, and many other places. He had been doing the work

If you have a registered email address (or several), today you likely received an updated notification flier from the FDLE. Most obviously, the flier instructs registrants to insert their “internet identifiers” as Instant Messengers – Other. A copy of the flier can be seen here: https://floridaactioncommittee.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/2014-Registrant-Email-Flier.pdf