Florida Action Committee

This week two of our FAC board members participated in a reentry seminar at Madison Correctional Institution, an incentivized facility.  The Florida Department of Corrections plans on eventually conducting such seminars at all facilities.  Why it has taken so long to figure out the need for such programs, I do not know.  But leaving a correctional institution with a one-way

Florida Action Committee is working toward filing a lawsuit to begin taking down the insane Florida county ordinances that are spreading from county to county like a cancer.  All it takes is for one county/municipal commissioner to hear of a sex offense ordinance in a nearby county and they decide to propose it in their own locality.  Never has any

FAC Contributor #12 on October 3, 2024 at 5:32 pm Final arguments were heard challenging the Florida requirement that the message sexual predator must be printed on a driver’s license. The plaintiff, an FAC member from Jacksonville, argued that this requirement is unconstitutionally compelled speech. The plaintiff is represented by attorneys from the Florida Justice Institute in Miami. FJI also challenged

According to Elizabeth Larson with the Lake County News, “a federal court ruling handed down earlier this month has resulted in changes to inmate and arrest information posted on the Lake County Sheriff’s Office website.” The Ninth Circuit Court ruled that Maricopa County, Arizona’s posting of photographs of arrestees was unconstitutional since it is punishment, and the state may not

The decision was a mixed one that found some aspects of the most recent version of Michigan’s Sex Offender Registration Act unconstitutional, but upheld it in other respects.   The court found for the Plaintiffs on the following issues: (1) Under relevant Sixth Circuit case law, retroactive imposition of an in-person reporting requirement violated the Ex Post Facto clause. (2)

Since June of this year, an FAC board member has made numerous attempts to set up a meeting with the Assistant Commissioner for Florida Department of Law Enforcement and several FAC members to begin a dialogue between FDLE and families of those forced to register. Topics of concern that FAC would like addressed: After FDLE modernized its software and operating

By Dwayne Daughtry   In North Carolina, a troubling conflict between law and faith has emerged. Current sex offense laws are effectively barring individuals on the sex offender registry from attending church services—a stark contradiction to the spirit of religious freedom that the Constitution is meant to protect. This issue stems from the vague wording of the “Sex Offender Unlawfully

Florida’s Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability (OPPAGA) is preparing for its 2024 Sex Offender Registration and Monitoring Triennial Review.  OPPAGA is a research arm of the Florida Legislature which supports the legislature by providing data, evaluative research, and objective analyses that assist legislative budget and policy deliberations. In preparations for their 2024 Triennial Review, OPPAGA reached out

It has concerned me for some time that some of our members think they can visit schools in Florida once they are off all sanctions.  Florida Statute 856.022, subsection (1) lists the criminal offenses, where the victim was under 18 years of age at the time of the offense, for which certain requirements must be followed.  Any person who violates

Law360 reports New York’s State Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assault conviction “has reignited a decades-old legal debate around whether sexual assault prosecutions should be excluded from the rule against allowing propensity evidence in criminal cases, so as to aid juries assessing the plausibility of a defendant’s consent defense, or whether doing so could result in wrongful