Author: FAC Contributor #10

For the Senate Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice (SB 1230) and the House Justice Appropriations Subcommittee (HB 1235)   Even though SB 1230 and HB 1235 have passed favorably in each of their first committees, we learned from last year that now is not the time to give up.  Our FAC legislative chair has been spending days in

The Legislative Committee has posted two lists of legislative bills working their way through various subcommittees of the Florida Senate and House on the FAC website.  A link is provided below.  The matrices are located in the Legislative Committee section under the header “Committees” on the menu bar found above and just below the FAC logo.     One matrix highlights

The survey provided successful insight into use of the FDLE Cyber Communication System.  Even with a glitch in the setting of multiple choice answers for two questions in the survey, many wrote in answers that have been added to the results here.   The results demonstrate that most respondents familiar with and approved to use the online system do use

Florida Legislators are trying to make changes to statutes 775.21 and 943.0435, some of which would make the statutes more punitive.   Besides a campaign with hundreds of people contacting legislators to oppose certain parts of the bill, a press release has been sent out.  You can read the press release here.

The Criminal Justice Committee passed unanimously SB 1230, entitled “Sexual Predators and Sexual Offenders.” See the video here OR See the video here starting at 13:00.

A bill has been introduced in Washington that would extend membership to the Washington State’s Sex Offender Policy Board (SOPB) to people who served time in jail for sex offenses.  The group would be extended to include a member of a sex offender advocacy group and “a representative with lived experience with incarceration for a sex offense,” among others. SOPB

What you need to know about SB 1230 and HB 1235:   SB 1230 and HB 1235 are identical bills where our legislators are attempting to amend the Sexual Predators Act (FS 775.21) and the Sexual Offenders Act (943.0435).   SB 1230 is on the agenda for the Senate Criminal Justice Committee on January 23, 2024, (Tuesday) at 1:00 pm,

Arguing before the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) is a case challenging the Chevron Doctrine.  This doctrine provides that when unknowns, or ambiguity, exists, matters should be deferred to the professional experience of the government agency involved.     This doctrine enables federal agencies to write rules to implement laws dutifully passed by Congress, but to “fill in the gap” and draft,

Congressman Joe Morelle, D-NY, has introduced a bill that would make the creation and dissemination of AI produced porn a federal crime.  This is often called deep fake porn because it uses computer technology to blend the face of a real person onto the image of someone else’s nude body.     AI has advanced this ability with new technology that

Florida Statute 943.0435(4)(e)1 requires all registered offenders to register email addresses and internet identifiers with their local jurisdiction within 48 hours of initial use.  The internet identifiers are your username (moniker, designation, screen name, or other name used for self-identification)  and the software, website, or app that are being used.    Due to the vagueness of the requirement relative to