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Keep up to date on changes in the Registrant community. Legislative actions, news, studies, and current events. See the links below for more information or be a voice for change by joining Florida Action Committee.
Blogs with News Stories on Sex Offender Issues:
Call To Action: Help get support from other Human Rights Organizations
Our Change.org petition has broken 3,500 signatures. We would like to get to 5,000. Not only because more numbers is a greater indication of more people thinking the registry is a human rights violation, but because we want more people to read the actual petition!...
City of Gainesville Rolls Back Sex Offender Residency Restrictions
Effective immediately, the City of Gainesville has rolled back it's sex offender residency restriction to fall inline with the State's law. The change, which reduces the exclusion zone from 2500 feet to 1000 feet, was unanimously voted in favor of by the City...
The Registry Failed Them: Logan County Assistant DA Arrested for Child Porn
The Logan County, Oklahoma District Attorney's Office should be a safe place. According to the state, "the mission of Oklahoma District Attorneys and their offices is to protect the public through proactively advocating as ministers of justice for public safety and...
It’s #givingtuesday! Please consider FAC in your generosity.
Today is “Giving Tuesday”, the day recognized as a "global generosity movement unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and the world". If you were planning on participating in Giving Tuesday, we humbly ask that you consider the...
The Sex Offender Registry Failed Them: Warden of women’s prison on trial for sex crimes.
You would think the security of a federal prison would have protected women from sexual abuse, especially since the enactment of the Federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA), but the sex offender registry failed dozens of inmates at the...
TX: City refuses exception to SORR for terminal registrant.
An elderly bed-ridden registered sex offender will not be allowed to move in with relatives in a Montgomery County home for end-of-life care after Shenandoah city leaders declined to amend an ordinance that restricts residency. The daughter of the 79-year-old man...
Falsely labeled a sex offender by Bureau of Prisons, Bronfman’s win upholds constitutional rights
On November 16th, after months of court proceedings against the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and a series of cases that raise questions about government and prosecutorial overreach, Seagram’s heiress Clare Bronfman successfully won the removal of a false “sex offender”...
A Florida Registrant Thanksgiving.
It's the day before Thanksgiving. In years past I'd be packing right now, but this year and for the past 5 years or so, I'm not. Here's why... Since I first started coming home from University, the Thanksgiving tradition always involved travel somewhere. It was such a...
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