Author: FAC Contributor #6

Weekly Update 2017-11-29 Dear Members and Advocates, One problem (of many) with registration requirements for Registered Citizens is that they are vague, confusing and subject to broad interpretation. Take, for example, the requirement to register a temporary address. Say you live in Tampa and you go to visit your relatives in Orlando for Christmas break. You plan to stay for

Weekly Update 2017-11-18 Dear Members and Advocates, This weekly update comes a bit late in the week because we were anxiously waiting (and hoping) to have news to report from our Internet Identifier case, but unfortunately, we are still waiting for the Court to issue an order. From our perspective, it’s good that the Judge is putting a lot of

Weekly Update 2017-11-07 Dear Members and Advocates, The question of what to do with registrants legislated into homelessness is about to become more interesting. This morning, at the Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners Meeting, the commissioners heard a first reading of a proposed amendment to an “overnight camping” ordinance that prohibits overnight camping on public property. Overnight camping on public

Weekly Update 2017-10-30 Dear Members and Advocates, There is a lot going on and a lot of information we are anxiously waiting to receive. First, this past Thursday, oral arguments on the Motions for Summary Judgment took place in the Internet Identifier lawsuit. Attorneys for the Florida Justice Institute, who are co-counsel with Weitzner & Jonas, travelled to Tallahassee for

Weekly Update 2017-10-17 Dear Members and Advocates, An interesting thing happened this past week. Apparently, we got sued for “defamation” by ClearMyCase.com. As much as we intend to write about the suit right now, is posted to: https://floridaactioncommittee.org/clearmycase-warning-registrants/. The only thing to add is that last week, of his own volition, the Judge found the complaint deficient and ordered ClearMyCase

Weekly Update 2017-10-10 Dear Members and Advocates, It’s that time of year again. With Halloween approaching, you’ll begin to see news reports popping up with “keeping your kids safe from sex offenders” stories. Patch.com has already started running their “[CITY NAME] Halloween Sex Offender Safety Map” pages. Although the word “safety” appears in the title, these stories and sites have

Weekly Update 2017-10-03 Dear Members and Advocates, Whatever could have taken place this past week was immediately overshadowed by the mass shooting that took place Sunday night in Las Vegas. The senseless tragedy that, as of the time of this writing, has taken almost 60 lives puts everything into perspective. As bad as things may ever become, we live to

Weekly Update 2017-09-26 Dear Members and Advocates: Two significant events took place yesterday. First; the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) re-convened to decide which cases they would choose to hear during the upcoming session. Among them, a couple of sex offender cases. Second; the sentencing of former US Congressman, Anthony Weiner, for a sexting a minor. We will

Weekly Update 2017-09-19 Dear Members and Advocates, Last week, two short-form versions of David Feige’s documentary, Untouchable, were released. One version highlighting the story of an individual on the registry who probably doesn’t deserve to be there for life – intended to humanize those behind the label and remind the public that “sex offenders” are not all beady-eyed dirty old