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Weekly Update #69 Dear Members and Advocates, I don’t get it! What’s the harm in voting? There are a lot of restrictions when it comes to consequences of a felony conviction, some make more sense than others. No possession of firearms? Seems a bit harsh to pass a blanket ban on a constitutional right for those whose crimes had nothing

Weekly Update #68 Dear Members and Advocates, The Washington Post, today, reports that the House Oversight and Reform Committee is convening for a third hearing on the topic of facial recognition technology. While some legislators are gung ho about the use of the artificial intelligence software, others are very skeptical. We are scared! According to the Post article, “Just this

Weekly Update #66 Dear Members and Advocates, Happy New Year! 2020 started out great as we closed the year meeting a funding goal in the “Non-Registrant Collateral Consequences Challenge”! Because of a super-generous matching pledge from one of our members, the first five thousand dollars of donations towards that challenge were matched, dollar for dollar. That meant the $5,125 we

Weekly Update #65 Dear Members and Advocates, We hope that you have been able to find time to relax and reflect with a positive outlook on the past year and year ahead of us. On the next Monthly Membership call, Gail will be providing updates on all of our accomplishments in 2019, and our new goals for 2020.  Due to

Weekly Update #64 Dear Members and Advocates, This week’s update is directed at television station WJXT and their news show News4Jax (@wjxt4)… Shame on you! The backstory: A few days ago, two children went missing in Jacksonville, Florida. Yesterday, before those children were (most importantly) found safe, News4Jax aired a story they titled “30 sex offenders, predators in 2-mile radius

Weekly Update #63 Dear Members and Advocates, Yesterday I woke up after a decent night’s sleep, took a shower, grabbed a cup of coffee and drove to work. I put in a full day at the office, drove back home and had some dinner. That’s pretty much my routine each day. I’m sure most of you are asking yourselves why

Weekly Update #61 Dear Members and Advocates, In September, we announced that our next legal challenge would be the “Non-Registrant Collateral Consequences (NRCC) Challenge”. 2019 has been FAC’s “year of the family”. We have engaged more non-registrants into our advocacy, we coordinated family support groups with treatment providers, and there is no way to better end the year than by

Weekly Update #60 Dear Members and Advocates, For as many years as I’ve been preparing the weekly updates, the Thanksgiving week update is the one that I’ve always struggled the most with. As I reflect on all the things I’m thankful for, a part of me always feels very guilty. Many among us won’t be celebrating the holiday with a

Weekly Update #59 Dear Members and Advocates, It’s been a busy week. The first priority in this week’s update is to recognize those members who have stepped up lately. The members who attended the Clay County Board of County Commissioners meeting recently and the members who posted responses and sent letters in response to a “fake news” story out of

Weekly Update #58 Dear Members and Advocates, Today we honor our nation’s military Veterans. To our members who have served in the US Armed Forces, we thank you for your service! The topic of this week’s update is mistakes. We’re not referring to the crimes committed by those on the registry, but mistakes made on the other end of the