FAC Weekly Update 2026-05-21-Together, We Fight Back: FAC Announces Historic Registry Challenge
Weekly update for May 21, 2026. This is recording number 371
Dear Members and Advocates,
This week, FAC is proud to announce a major step forward in the fight against Florida’s Sex Offender Registry. FAC has retained the law firm of Winston & Strawn LLP to bring a constitutional legal challenge against the Florida Registry system, specifically in response to the recent passage of SB 212/HB 45.
For many in our community, this last amendment to the registry was the straw that broke the camel’s back. It represents yet another expansion of an already bloated and punitive registry system that has long abandoned any meaningful connection to public safety, rehabilitation, or constitutional fairness. Instead, Florida continues to double down on policies that isolate, destabilize, and punish people indefinitely – often decades after they have completed their sentences and rebuilt their lives. Enough!
This challenge will be led by attorney Michael Kimberly, one of the nation’s most respected appellate and Supreme Court advocates. Michael is widely recognized as a leader of the Supreme Court bar and was identified by Reuters as part of the “elite cadre of lawyers” who dominate Supreme Court advocacy. Over the years, he has earned national recognition for his appellate work. Importantly for FAC and our mission, Michael has extensive experience designing and executing affirmative constitutional challenges against state regulations. His work has involved critical constitutional issues that go to the very heart of the registry debate. Michael is a graduate of Yale Law School, where he served as an editor of The Yale Law Journal and later taught Supreme Court advocacy on the Yale faculty from 2015 through 2026.
This is the kind of fight that many people have dreamed about for years!
But bringing a challenge of this magnitude against the State of Florida is an enormous undertaking. Quite frankly, it would be impossible for any one of us to carry this burden alone. That is why we are asking for your help. This litigation will require tremendous financial resources, expert support, research, filings, and long-term commitment. FAC is stepping up to make this happen, but we cannot do it without the registrant community standing together behind this effort. Please donate to our General Legal Fund today or contact [email protected] if you would like to arrange a tax deductible donation.
If you have ever said “someone needs to challenge this,” that time is now! If you’ve ever thought “we should do something,” this is something monumental! FAC, our Board, and all of our membership brought in the best and together, we are making this happen!
Sincerely,
The Florida Action Committee
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I just turned 85 June 5 and 6 months ago, I was told I have cancer. This involves me going to medical facilities, Urologist, Endocrinologist, etc. Each time presenting my driver’s license. I can deal with the pharmacist after having to display my DL but the lack of proper care from Dentists or Dr.’s choosing to be judge and jury and not healers of the ill is due to the states disregard of citizens safety. In my heart, I believe if it’s God’s will for me to EVER have to go to the hospital, I would I would be at the mercy of those who would play God. The “Outstanding blue lettering” could be fatal.
Did someone deny you care based on what was on your drivers license?
We have belonged to F.A.C. for years and will stand side by side with them and will financially support this as we have other movements to take the states albatross off the back of registered citizens. They have actually broken the law with these added punishments.
My crime happened in 1995 and my question has always been, should I even be on the registry?
Thank you, all involved in the F.A.C. May God bless you and prosper all you pursue for truth and justice.