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FAC In The News
Breaking Down The Sex Offender Label
When most hear the term “registered sex offender” the first thought that comes to mind is ‘this person is a child molester’. While the label does include many who have molested children and some other heinous acts, the label also includes many whose offenses had nothing to do with children, whose offenses are relatively benign or who have no direct victim at all. Read more…by FAC President Gail Colletta
More homeless sex offenders on the way
Suncoast News… Commentary by FAC President Gail Colletta
Sexual Predator Signs
Huntington Post… A video posting with FAC President Gail Colletta
The Michael Blum Show
A live broadcast show from Boca Raton Florida every Monday Evening from 9-11PM ET from WWNN 1470AM. Think, speak and be heard!
Channel 9 Response
Florida Action Committee: Response to Thursday, May 16, 2013 Channel 9 report: “FDLE shows WFTV mobile forensics lab used to identify child porn suspects”
Community split on sexual predator signs
Red Signs Bradford County mark homes of sexual predators.
Must Watch: FAC gets mention on ABC7
FAC received a mention on Ft. Meyers' ABC 7 on the below story about sex offenders' use of social media. Click on the link below to watch....
The challenge of elderly sex offenders
By the time deputies arrested Thomas Bernard Brown for failing to register as a sexual predator, he had built up a 10-year record of consistent registration in Marion County. That’s 42 check-ins, as his attorneys and his friends pointed out at a sentencing hearing in...
Sex offenders gather at annual conference in Texas
DALLAS - For the first time ever, sex offenders gathered at their annual conference in Texas have allowed cameras inside to get a look at the event. Approximately 100 registered sex offenders from across the country gathered this week at their conference at Magnolia...
Florida becomes the harshest state for sex offenders
In Arcadia, a town of 6,000 east of Sarasota, there's a facility wrapped in sky-high barbed wire, where no one can choose to get in or out. This isn't a prison, and its residents aren't serving a sentence. It's the Florida Civil Commitment Center, home to 650 men whom...
Sex Offender Shuffle Continues
The colony of homeless sex offenders in Miami-Dade County is once again being moved... 100 yards to the east! After several months of complaining that over 100 registrants were sent to live in his parking lot, the owner of Adolfo's House Beauty Supply received the...
Evidence Based Practices April 2014
This summary is intended to assist our activist groups to become familiar with current literature in our efforts to inform policy and assist in the creation of smarter legislation.
Registry A Tool For Humiliation
The following is an excerpt of a letter to the editor that was published in the Missourian and written by Vicky Henry, President of Women Against Registry (W.A.R.): "The punitiveness of our sex offender laws, registry and restrictions are totally unsupported by any...
Another Registrant Killed in Florida
Williams had no place else he could legally stay, so probation officials placed a tracker on Williams’ leg and told him to remain in the woods.