Savor Cinema of Ft. Lauderdale, the location for our community event “A Courageous Conversation About Sex Offenders in Our Communities” has graciously agreed to co-host the event, alongside the Florida Action Committee and the Broward County Criminal Justice Reentry Task Force’s Sex Offender Housing Subcommittee.
The event is scheduled for January 27, 2020 at 6:00PM and will take place at the Savor, 503 SE 6th St, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301.
Along with a screening of the award-winning documentary, “Untouchable”, there will be a panel discussion from experts on this important topic.
Panelists will be:
- Justine Patterson – Regional Director of the Florida Department of Corrections. Justine is responsible for the supervision of more than 300 probation officers.
- Valerie Jonas – Attorney – Val is a civil rights attorney who is featured in the film and who has been challenging the constitutionality of registration requirements.
- Meredith Powers Lupo – Reentry Specialist for the Veteran’s Administration. Meredith is a clinical social worker who works extensively with the veteran registrant population.
- Kate Winslow – Treatment Provider – Kate is a treatment provider with Anaga Psychotherapy Center, which is a State and Federally contracted treatment provider for Sex Offender Treatment,
- …Plus our own President, Gail Colletta.
The event is open to the public. We respectfully ask that those who would like to attend RSVP at: http://evite.me/sw19CdqcYy
Why does this movement keep hyping up this film? It was a disappointment to say the least. This film makes Ron and Lauren Book sympathetic characters, and this movement was grossly underrepresented in the film. Then they added that admitted pedophile who said if we knew what went on in his mind you’d lock him up for life and throw away the key.
Fiege said my message was “too harsh” because I brought up Ron Book’s criminal convictions. Why shouldn’t Ron Book have his past brought up? He does it to us all the time.
The heat should have been cranked up on the Books but this film didn’t even confront him with ANYTHING that contradicts his BS. The rest of this movement is way too easily impressed, but I am not.
I don’t think a person can be too critical of the criminals Ron and Lauren Book/Crook. Frankly, they are harassing terrorists and I think they should be treated exactly as terrorists should be. They deserve the harshest consequences conceivable.
I’ve been wanting to make a documentary of my own because most of the documentaries/news specials always seem to focus on the more heinous crimes of people who ended up on the registry.
Where are the teens who sexted or the teens who were in a legal relationship until one turned 18 before the other turned 16? There was a case like that in CT and was featured on John Stossil’s “Give Me A Break” 20/20 series. But these are never mentioned in sex offender documentaries. It’s always about child molestation. No one is going to see the registry any differently when the focus is always on something horrible.
I’d still like to make my own documentary but I dunno how/where to start and how to get the people for interviews.
I’d have to agree with you Derek. It was my personal opinion that this movie didnt really represent the majority of the people registered. I havent seen it in while but I remeber it was not that great IMO. The one guy they had highlighted that was an admitted pedophile was a terrible choice for that film. I didnt feel it did a lot of good. I personally cant stomach another viewing of anything with the Crook crime family in it.
My wife assumed Ron Book was some sort of hero, after she viewed the preview of “Untouchable.”
Just a thought, that reentry group, isn’t in the same county as Books is it ?If it is can they look into taking the grant money Book is getting for housing I am sure they would be more even minded when handing out the moneys to the clients that need housing down there than Mr Book has been.