Below is the text of a letter sent by FAC to Facebook:
Facebook, Inc. SENT VIA EMAIL
Attn: Legal Department [email protected]
1 Hacker Way
Menlo Park, California 94025
RE: YOUR POLICY ON PERSONS REQUIRED TO REGISTER
To Whom It May Concern:
The Florida Action Committee, Inc. (FAC) is a non-profit, public safety advocacy organization comprised of more than 2000 members. Among our membership are persons required to register as sex offenders, their family members, treatment providers, and those interested in civil and human rights. Our organization advocates for effective policies that follow empirical research and best practices.
Earlier this week, FAC was alerted to a proposed change in Facebook’s Community Standard Policy. Specifically, Facebook’s policy of prohibiting “statements to commit violence… unless the target is… described as having carried out violent crimes or sexual offenses” The policy updates can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards/recentupdates/all_updates/
Although it appears that the “statements to commit violence” exemption that would allow threats of violence against persons required to register has been struck through, it is concerning to us that Facebook even considered a policy that would incite and condone vigilante action.
FAC is also strongly opposed to your blanket policy of discriminating against all individuals who are required to register – especially those who have served their sentence and are living lawfully. Not all persons required to register are homogenous and this population has among the lowest recidivism rates of all classification of offenses. The ability to re-connect with family, friends, a support system and function in modern society (which includes access to social media) inhibits re-offense.
It is my hope that Facebook will reconsider their position when it comes to these people and at least afford them the opportunity to petition to be allowed into the Facebook community.
Sincerely,
Gail Colletta, President
Looks like it worked. When I follow your link to the policy, it shows that it has been revised with those portions stricken out. Good work!
Once I realized 2Facebook was a glorified gossip page and made up of majority females, young and older spreading hateful comments and slander. I deleted my page and got the hell off before something like this happened. Knowing how trends tend to go, I knew it wouldn’t be long until they politicized ROS’s and their presence on 2Facebook. Frankly I couldn’t care less about 2Facebook. They mean nothing and offer very little to the quality of life for all involved.
This so called education of the public has not helped one bit. The sex teror is not just in Florida or the USA, it is worldwide. It is a juggernaught based on ignorance and psychosis by the elites who populate our governments.
A few posts or even letters on social media does not cut it. It won’t do the job that needs to be done. Have any of you seen any real results from this?
To really educate the public dedicated teams need to be created, each member posting everyday. Each person several social media sites, and newspaper comments. Individuals posting here and there will never work.
A constant pounding of the drum is needed, that this is an insane holocaust going on, innocent people being harmed. Not at all for the protection of children.
And such a campaign is just one part of a winning strategy.
Gauloise, I look forward to seeing you at one of our meet and greets or participating in one of our member calls to spearhead your strategy.
We might start by refraining from referring to registries as a holocaust. That is how we lose credibility.
We gain the ability for solving the problem by opening our eyes and calling things what they really are.
The registries are one part of a campaign of genocide:
deprive people of jobs so they are powerless to defend themselves and move out danger;
making them targets of attack by street thugs;
medical officials deliberately injuring patients under sedation;
economically exploitation of SO’s by inventing ridiculous procedures and charging them for them endlessly (this is the same as Nazi’s working Jews to death in the concentration camps and picking the gold from their teeth).
Yes, this is genocide.
Beautifully written !
Thank you for this. It’s bad enough Facebook allows pages dedicated to the entrapment and vigilantism of men(or women) allegedly meeting minors for sex. Some of you should look at the page NFPH that’s up and running on Facebook. It’s scary what the admistrators of that page are doing. But, my husband who’s a productive member of society and served his time and continues to keep his dignity intact in spite of what the state,and society throws at us. Yea,no Facebook for him.
LOVE THIS!
Awesome letter! Thank You, FAC!
Gail, great letter but I wouldn’t waste my time with Facebook.
All letters with Gail’s name attached are brilliant, it seems.
They might look to Twitter, where a number of persons required to register have helped educate the public.
Twitter’s terms of use, rather than dictating who may or may not use it, instead say that their site may not be used for sexual exploitation, no matter who you are. This condition has been violated, but not, to my knowledge, by anyone on the registry!
There was one registrant who got kicked off the site, but it had to do with disputes or something (I’ll let him speak for himself if he wishes).
Thank you