Author: FAC Contributor #10

Earlier, our Call to Action for Volusia County was updated to let members know that the ordinance that was to be drafted, which would have raised the 1000-foot residence restriction in the unincorporated area to 1500 feet for people labeled by the state as predators, was withdrawn from the July 11 meeting agenda.  This was after members had contacted the

According to WCPO ABC Cincinnati in Ohio, “Warren County…is among the first in the country to pilot a new device that encompasses all the functionality of an ankle monitor in the compatibility of a smartwatch device.” These wrist devices are thought to diminish the stigma that can go with the bulky ankle monitors.  They also operate like the ankles monitors

THE FOLLOWING IS THE OPINION OF ONE OF OUR MEMBERS AND NOT NECESSARILY THAT OF FLORIDA ACTION COMMITTEE. As election season really gets going, you may be sent emails and text messages asking for money and polls asking you what your thoughts are. Please take a moment and fill out the comments section(s) on any polls that you receive. Also,

Attorneys with the Paris case (6500-foot residence restriction) have contacted us to correct misstatements that were made in our most recent post.  They let us know there is much to be optimistic about in the court’s decision as they are putting some brakes on municipal ordinances that have spiraled out of control in Wisconsin – something they have never done

How we can make a difference:   A reporter from 8 WFLA Tampa Bay said he has heard from registrants in several other areas of the state besides Pinellas Park that probationers are being “assigned” to wooded camps:  Hillsborough, Hernando, Manatee, Flagler, Brevard, and Palm Beach Counties.  Additionally, some FAC members are telling us that it is also happening in

This year will mark the 25th anniversary of the public Sex Offender Registry (SOR) in Connecticut. Twenty-five years has been more than sufficient for researchers to study the impact of the SOR on public safety. Since sexual harm is so damaging to the fabric of our communities, our state government needs to take a level-headed look at the research that

The people on the sex offender registry who were told by probation officers to live in a wooded area in Pinellas Park are now being told to vacate the camp by this Tuesday, August 15.  The homeless camp that they were told to live in happens to be on Florida Department of Transportation property. It turns out that Pinellas County

Recall Does v Snyder, in which registrants’ challenge to the Michigan registry lead to its being declared punishment by the Federal Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. This victory has led to registry removals in Tennessee, which belongs to the same Federal circuit, and the prospect of substantial legal fees being owed by the state.  Read more from Nashville’s

People convicted of sex crimes can’t get their names removed from the sex offender registry simply by leaving the Palmetto State, the South Carolina Supreme Court ruled.   (Read the full story at the Post and Courier). In a federal lawsuit, “John Doe” and the American Civil Liberties Union alleged the State Law Enforcement Division policy unconstitutionally punishes people who no

Mississippi’s lifetime voting ban for people with disqualifying felony convictions has been struck down in a new decision from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. The court ruled in the case of Hopkins v. Hosemann that by banning former offenders “from the body politic forever” they will be punished “beyond the term their culpability requires,” according