Comments on: Florida’s Open Seats: Now Is the Time to Make Your Voice Heard https://floridaactioncommittee.org/floridas-open-seats-now-is-the-time-to-make-your-voice-heard/ Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:40:55 +0000 hourly 1 By: Merry Imel https://floridaactioncommittee.org/floridas-open-seats-now-is-the-time-to-make-your-voice-heard/comment-page-1/#comment-75127 Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:40:55 +0000 https://floridaactioncommittee.org/?p=27637#comment-75127 FDLE testified that my husband most likely got images BY ACCIDENT, which he did. Ninety five percent of sex offenders NEVER do it again. I personally have lost many friends, because of Florida’s UNFAIR law. Please reconsider your unfair laws.

]]> By: JJJJ https://floridaactioncommittee.org/floridas-open-seats-now-is-the-time-to-make-your-voice-heard/comment-page-1/#comment-75104 Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:57:30 +0000 https://floridaactioncommittee.org/?p=27637#comment-75104 In reply to Rocker.

Great advice.
Yes, I email legislators, newspapers, and local TV station regularly.
Please, let’s all do the same!
SPEAK UP!!!

]]> By: Rocker https://floridaactioncommittee.org/floridas-open-seats-now-is-the-time-to-make-your-voice-heard/comment-page-1/#comment-75098 Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:53:50 +0000 https://floridaactioncommittee.org/?p=27637#comment-75098 In reply to JJJJ.

FAC cannot do it alone! Although voting rights may not be restored, your voice is yours! Choose to no longer hide behind the stigma and speak up.
Write a letter, give a speech, something is better than nothing.
Organizations can not be blamed for failed policy when those the organization is speaking has no backing of voices when there are plenty of voices and stories to be heard!
Just my opinion

]]> By: Anonymous https://floridaactioncommittee.org/floridas-open-seats-now-is-the-time-to-make-your-voice-heard/comment-page-1/#comment-75031 Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:04:16 +0000 https://floridaactioncommittee.org/?p=27637#comment-75031 With another March on Washington in preparation, this is a good time to evaluate how we can be more effective by looking at what helped other movements in the past. There are systemic forces at work to suppress the black vote by diluting their voting power through gerrymandering. Voting is the one thing that can keep unchecked power under submission, and it is the one thing that many, if not most in our position, lack in the state of Florida.

We have probably over a million voting age persons among us across America. Do you know that if we all lived in the same state, what power we could wield to change that state’s laws? As it is, our voting power is diluted, and in some cases, invalidated by our state’s laws. Perhaps we should also be focusing our efforts on waking up the sleepers among our community and consider how we might leverage our collective power better.

]]> By: JJJJ https://floridaactioncommittee.org/floridas-open-seats-now-is-the-time-to-make-your-voice-heard/comment-page-1/#comment-74877 Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:28:37 +0000 https://floridaactioncommittee.org/?p=27637#comment-74877 In reply to Richard Charles.

Good points. And who knows? Maybe someday we will have a governor who truly believes in second chances.

]]> By: Roman Plankowski https://floridaactioncommittee.org/floridas-open-seats-now-is-the-time-to-make-your-voice-heard/comment-page-1/#comment-74876 Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:18:47 +0000 https://floridaactioncommittee.org/?p=27637#comment-74876 In reply to Richard Charles.

Can we invite them to FAC offices? Do we have a PowerPoint presentation that provides viewers with fact based information?

]]> By: Ben https://floridaactioncommittee.org/floridas-open-seats-now-is-the-time-to-make-your-voice-heard/comment-page-1/#comment-74873 Thu, 09 Jul 2026 02:33:04 +0000 https://floridaactioncommittee.org/?p=27637#comment-74873 Not ALL of our rights. Unless you’ve been pardoned, you still won’t have the right to bear arms.

]]> By: Richard Charles https://floridaactioncommittee.org/floridas-open-seats-now-is-the-time-to-make-your-voice-heard/comment-page-1/#comment-74868 Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:06:59 +0000 https://floridaactioncommittee.org/?p=27637#comment-74868 In reply to JJJJ.

Some of us have a withhold of adjudication and retained ALL of our rights. Also, we all have friends and family that are able to vote. Invite them to FAC, show them the facts, and prove that we are able to be rehabilitated. Those friends and family can also share the same FACTS with their friends and family that can also vote and speak out for us. I fully understand, since I’ve been on the registry since 2001, that we all just want to live a peaceful quiet life, but our voices DO still have impact, even with incoming representatives. Even if your right to vote and have a firearm have been taken, your freedom of speech, among MANY other rights are still intact. Again, share FACTS with literally everyone who will listen, and even ones who may be pretending to listen, because one phrase may make even them start to research those facts, even if it is to try and prove you wrong. One small act or talk may just change minds and even history. Thank you FAC for a list of possible representatives. Is there any insight on candidates that are running this year for any seat of the Florida government that is even mildly onboard with us or leveling out common sense laws? Those names would be handy for us voters also.

]]> By: Brandon https://floridaactioncommittee.org/floridas-open-seats-now-is-the-time-to-make-your-voice-heard/comment-page-1/#comment-74867 Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:56:47 +0000 https://floridaactioncommittee.org/?p=27637#comment-74867 In reply to JJJJ.

And Majority of the time we are denied Clemency

]]> By: JJJJ https://floridaactioncommittee.org/floridas-open-seats-now-is-the-time-to-make-your-voice-heard/comment-page-1/#comment-74863 Wed, 08 Jul 2026 19:58:08 +0000 https://floridaactioncommittee.org/?p=27637#comment-74863 How does FAC represent about 100,000 voters in Florida? We are forbidden from voting (unless we get our civil rights restored by applying to the State Clemency Board).

FL Amendment 4 from 2018?

Am I missing something?

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