Advocacy News
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:
Results of HB 1235 beginning October 1, 2024
The changes in HB 1235 apply to ALL people on the registry, whether they are forced to register as a sex offender or sexual predator. For the purpose of calculating a temporary residence, the first day that a person abides, lodges, or resides at a place is...
Results of Harper v. Glass Order beginning October 1, 2024
This order addresses only the reporting requirements of those forced to register as a sex offender, NOT sexual predators. There is NO change to current operations as they pertain to a person with the label of predator forced upon them. FDLE interprets the...
Alarming news out of Louisiana
A bill that should have gone nowhere in Louisiana’s legislative body, has passed in the House and has had a first reading in the Senate. HB 166 is the vasectomy bill: “In addition to any other penalties provided by law, any person who is convicted of a sex offense as...
FAC Announcements April 2024
"PETITION TO THE UNITED NATIONS TO INVESTIGATE THE UNITED STATES' SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY AS A VIOLATION OF THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS." Reached 6,884 signatures. Help us get to 7,500 signatures before the NARSOL Conference in June! Tell friends...
Video of Volusia County Meeting
The Volusia County Council members voted on April 2, 2024, to extend the state’s 1000-foot residency restrictions to 1500 feet in the unincorporated parts of the county. Deland, Daytona Beach, and New Smyrna Beach already have 2500-foot residency restrictions....
There are innocent people on the “sex offender registry”
At the April 2 Volusia County Council meeting and one other meeting last year, Councilman Don Dempsey said in his 34 years as a prosecutor and defense attorney, he had seen people who were innocent take a plea deal rather than play Russian roulette with a jury. As a...
The Sex Offender Registry Failed Them: Data Shows Rise in Sexual Assaults Aboard Cruise Ships
We’ve previously written about measures that cruise lines have been taking to exclude sex offenders from their vessels. But the latest Federal data suggest that they were targeting the wrong people all along. ...
Illinois Supreme Court says studies do not always matter
According to a March 21 ruling from the Illinois Supreme Court, there are times when the legislature’s judgment in drafting a statute “may be based on regional speculation unsupported by evidence or empirical data and is not subject to judicial factfinding.” This...
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