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Weekly Update 2017-07-04 Dear Members and Advocates, Happy July 4th!!! Every year, on this calendar day, we commemorate freedom from oppression. On July 4, 1776, the 13 colonies declared their independence from Great Britain, who had been taxing and subjecting the colonists to unjust treatment decades. Since the Intolerable Acts of 1744, the British used cruelty and propaganda against the

Weekly Update 2017-06-27 Dear Members and Advocates, Yesterday, Governor Rick Scott signed HB 699 into law. What the bill did was modify the definition of Internet Identifier and defined the term “social Internet communication”. Basically, in addition to registering ones “Internet Identifier”, they must now also register the “website homepage” or “application software name” with the FDLE. The new definition

Weekly Update 2017-06-19 Dear Members and Advocates, This week’s “weekly update” is hitting your inboxes a bit early because we have some significant news to report. This morning, the US Supreme Court’s Opinion in “Packingham” came out and Packingham WON! Packingham is the case of the North Carolina registrant who posted a comment on his Facebook account. When the police

Weekly Update 2017-06-13 Dear Members and Advocates; Tonight, FAC is co-hosting a viewing event of Untouchable in Tampa, followed by a panel discussion. Another viewing is scheduled in Ft. Lauderdale on June 20th. We want you to come, but much more importantly, we want you to help spread the word and encourage others to come. We need community leaders, religious

Weekly Update 2017-06-06 Dear Members and Advocates, FAC has just returned from the 9th Annual NARSOL conference in Atlanta, Georgia, energized by the encouraging sessions and fueled with the information we brought back. The highlights of this year’s conference were the sessions led by attorneys heading up some of the landmark cases in our arena. Miriam Aukerman, who represented the

Weekly Update 2017-05-30 Dear Members and Advocates, As if you can’t tell from the heat, the summer is nearly upon us. As things sometimes have a tendency to slow down, the volunteers at FAC are not slowing down one bit! This summer we will be co-hosting several viewing events across Florida, where we will be screening the documentary film, “Untouchable”

Weekly Update 2017-05-23 Dear Members and Advocates, One of the most horrific, blatantly unconstitutional moves in the history of sex offender laws was stayed in Missouri yesterday! This was great news and significantly motivating in our fight. Earlier this year, the State of Missouri passed a law that placed lifetime GPS on “sex offenders.” It didn’t matter if you were

Weekly Update 2017-05-16 Dear Members and Advocates, In 2003, the Sex Offender Registry was determined by the Supreme Court of the United States, in Smith v. Doe, to be “non-punitive”. That means it’s not punishment and has further been described to be “civil” and “remedial”. But where else can you find sanctions for violating a civil statute so severe? Generally,

Weekly Update 2017-05-09 Dear Members and Advocates, The results from 2017’s legislative session are coming in and it’s a mixed bag. The good news, is that the one we were particularly concerned about, SB 1558, which would have created a “rebuttable presumption of dangerousness” to one’s own children and given DCF the green light to remove a registrant’s children from

Weekly Update 2017-05-03 Dear Members and Advocates, This week has been all about keeping school children safe from sexual assault. A topic that inarguably everyone is on board with and should be focused on. Marion County, Florida has instituted a new program “intended” to address this concern. They are posting three foot by three foot signs at school entrances warning registered