Author: FAC Contributor #3

According to an analysis by NBC 5 Investigates, 135 Chicago-area coaches have been sanctioned, suspended, disciplined or convicted of sexual abuse or misconduct since 2010, and the search is still ongoing! Experts cited in the article said coaching presents a “special opportunity” for grooming. The state’s legislature enacted the Illinois Sex Offender Registration Act. It’s purpose was “to create an

When Congress passed the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, it required states to enact a sex offender registry for those convicted of certain sex crimes. In the 28 years since the law has passed, sex offender registries have become a tool for the public to identify offenders and find out where they live. Now one national

FAC has let the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) know about the scams targeting registrants, over, and over, and over, and over, for years. We have asked repeatedly that they send a postal mail notification to the eighty thousand plus people on the registry, letting them know about the scams that target people on the registry. The FDLE has

Last week, Florida’s 2nd District Court of Appeals, remanded a lower court’s dismissal of a sting case back to the trial court. While the outcome (a dismissed ICAC sting case was reopened) wasn’t great, we’re getting a bit more attention to these stings and the rules of the game. Courts are beginning to notice what’s been going on and hopefully

From a member in New York: I am an SO on the Registry in NYS. I recently received a scam call from someone claiming to be from my local sheriff’s office (with a heavy southern accent). Fortunately, I was aware of such scams (I think from one of your emails) and did not bite. I was polite to the person

Pennsylvania’s Attorney General charged 4 religious leaders with the sexual abuse of 19 children. “Most of these defendants used their faith and church to gain access to their victims to build their trust, and then molested them,” PA AG Josh Shapiro said. “Some defendants only looked as far as their own families to commit their abuse.” Florida Action Committee notes

More than 33 Junior ROTC instructors have been criminally charged with sexual crimes against students during the past five years. The JROTC program is a partnership between the Defense Department, the military branches and high schools around the country meant to instill leadership skills and citizenship values in teenagers. Instead, the Defense Department and military branches have been instilling sexual

A coach at a Rancho Cucamonga, California high school plead guilty to secretly recording more than 48 minor victims in the girl’s locker room of the school he worked in. Parents should be asking California lawmakers how the California Sex Offender Registry failed these students so miserably. The sex offender registry failed them because the coach was not a registered

Greetings lawmaker, I am writing to inform you of my last wishes.  You see, I am registered sex offender in the State of Florida.  I was convicted in 2005.  I was placed on the Florida Sex Offender Registry for the rest of my life at that time.  I am currently 66 years of age.  My wife of almost 25 years

If anyone has a few extra moments this weekend, we would greatly appreciate you printing off ten copies of the flyer promoting our Change.org petition and posting them at random places around your community. You can access the flyer here: https://fac.securityinsight.pro/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Petition-Flyer-1.pdf Find places in your neighborhood where people frequent and see if there’s a community bulletin board or place where