☀️ Sunday Lookout: Weekly Updates & Organizational News 🌴
☀️ Sunday Lookout: Weekly Updates & Organizational News 🌴
Support Groups • Veterans • Hopeful News • Medical/ID Reporting • Media Volunteers
1. 🏳️🌈 LGBTQIA+ Support Group — Sunday
Sunday, September 20, 2026 • 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Florida Action Committee is hosting its LGBTQIA+ Support Group by Zoom. Members can join for conversation, support, connection, and community.
For more information about the group, contact FAC Membership.
2. 🤝 Member Support Call — Monday
Monday, September 21, 2026 • 8:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Join FAC’s Member Support Group for conversation, encouragement, and sharing. The group is facilitated by John D. and other county coordinators.
3. 🇺🇸 Veterans Supporting Veterans — Thursday
Thursday, September 24, 2026 • 8:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
The Veterans Group is a support forum for veterans forced to register, families of registered veterans, other veterans affected by the registry, and members of the public interested in supporting this focus group.
Members can expect support and resource assistance for concerns unique to veterans and their families.
4. 🌟 Michigan Update — Reporting It Again Because This Matters
FAC reported this development earlier, but it is worth highlighting again as members head into a new week.
More than 20,000 people have been removed from Michigan’s sex-offender registry as Michigan State Police implements a Michigan Supreme Court ruling involving retroactive registration requirements.
This does not mean Michigan eliminated its registry, and the ruling does not erase anyone’s underlying conviction. The issue concerns retroactive application of later registration requirements to certain people.
5. 🏥 Medical Treatment or Other Misuse of Registry ID Markings — How to Report It
FAC wants members to document situations where they believe they were treated differently after someone saw a registry-related marking on a Florida driver license or identification card, including “SEXUAL PREDATOR” or “943.0435, F.S.”
This may happen at a hospital, doctor’s office, pharmacy, hotel, workplace, security checkpoint, bank, government office, or another setting where identification is required.
- Date, time, and exact location.
- Who examined the identification.
- What happened before and after the ID was shown.
- Any exact words used by staff.
- Whether treatment or service was delayed, denied, or changed.
- Names of witnesses and any records connected to the incident.
6. 🎥 Want to Volunteer With FAC Media?
Florida Action Committee is looking for volunteers who want to help with media, public education, and production work. You do not need professional media experience.
Ways to help: production, writing, interviewing, research, logistics, media outreach, editing, and review.
Some projects involve sensitive personal experiences, so discretion, accuracy, and respect for participants are especially important.
✨ A Thought for the Week
“Progress rarely comes all at once. It is built by people who keep showing up, keep speaking, and keep moving forward.”
“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.”
— Maya Angelou
💙💚 Thank You to Every FAC Volunteer 💚💙
To every volunteer helping with legislative work, member support, media, research, veterans outreach, legal support, communications, social media, logistics, and everything in between — thank you. 🙌
🌱 Progress is built one meeting, one volunteer, one story, one court decision, and one act of support at a time.
💚 Help Sustain the Legal Fight
FAC’s General Legal Fund supports litigation expenses, including attorney fees, court filings, experts, research, public-records work, and other costs connected to legal challenges.
FAC is a 501(c)(4); donations made directly to FAC are generally not tax deductible. For information about tax-deductible giving options, contact FAC Membership.
🌎 Sign or Share the UN Human Rights Petition
The petition has now reached 9,566 verified signatures.
It has also generated 1,367 shares and 190 comments, with 184 people signing this week.
If you have already signed, please help keep the momentum going by sharing the petition with family, friends, organizations, and others who may want to add their voice.
General information only and not legal advice. Individual situations differ. If you are experiencing a medical emergency, seek immediate medical assistance.
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Oak Hill Hospital in Spring Hill scans the ID of all visitors. Tis is done upon entry by security or volunteer upon entry.
It changed over the past 4 months. Now the registry flier pic pops up rather than just the photo they take to print on the visitor pass.
This causes a delay on entry because the workers don’t know why two photos are popping up on their screen.
No change in visiting access yet and no change in treatment but it’s only a matter of time before the employees find out why.
That being said if you take a family member to the Emergency room you have to get a visitor badge. So things could get difficult quickly.
James
My doctor that I liked and was close to my house at a Florida based hospital, caused me to leave the doctor when two of the staff looked me up (Supposing my status was already in their system).
I overheard the two female staff members whispering as I sat in the waiting room and pretending I was not hearing what they said and looking down at a magazine. I had ear surgery in the past and can hear a bird a mile away, so I clearly heard them gossiping about me being a sex offender.
Sadly, when I went in to see the doctor, he wouldn’t even look at me and did an exam on me, then left without saying a word. Yet, his silence spoke volumes. When I got home, I called my medical insurance and asked to find a new doctor, that was not part of the hospital system.
Finally, what happened to the medical oaths doctors and nurses have to uphold for confidentiality? Spreading this to other workers is not confidentiality it is gossip and, in my opinion, illegal, but we know since we are considered the bottom of the barrel, not many are going to stick up for us.
I can’t remember all of the details, but went to Hollywood, Florida and needed to get a hotel room for the night. Walked in, spoke to the clerk, he had a room, he asked for my driver license and then looked up and said, I’m sorry, but I can’t rent you a room. I just picked up my DL, said thank you and left. Slept in my car that night. This was December 2023.
Sometimes it feels like we live in a third World country for some of the treatments registered persons endure. Law enforcement talking down to us, neighbors hating us, people losing their jobs once the secret is out and even medical staff acting like we do not deserve equal care.
I would hope that eventually judges who are sworn to justice, could realize we are being sentenced long after our sentences, they just do not see it that way. Calling it a regulatory scheme does not make it any better.
Until something changes, the wild west sheriffs will continue to find ways to lock us up over a piece of paper.