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(Weekly Update #208) Dear Members and Advocates, Yesterday, three of our members were able to do something they were not previously allowed to do for more than fifteen years. They were allowed to address their County commissioners at a county commission meeting. It was a long time in the making and required the filing of a lawsuit, but this right,

(Weekly Update #207) Dear Members and Advocates, Yesterday, numerous news outlets reported that lobbyist Ron Book has throat cancer and will begin chemotherapy and radiation treatment next week. Ron Book, has been one of the most outspoken proponents of registration restrictions. He is the architect of the Sex Offender Residency Restriction (SORR), he has publicly called our population “monsters”, he

(Weekly Update #206) Dear Members and Advocates, In addition to working with FAC, I sit on a couple of boards and subcommittees with the goal of fostering successful reentry for individuals who are required to register. This morning’s monthly meeting of one particular subcommittee was held online and attended by some of the most dedicated and qualified people in our

(Weekly Update #204) Dear Members and Advocates, You can’t say the Brevard County Commissioners didn’t see it coming. When they voted on a law to further restrict the exclusion zone for persons forced to register, and then excluded registrants from the public meeting held to discuss that proposal, you couldn’t design a more glaring violation of the First Amendment or

(Weekly Update #203) Dear Members and Advocates, The theme of last week’s update was “can’t we just get along?”. In it, we focused on negative comments and thoughts that have permeated our movement, our forum and ourselves. We left you with the plea to try harder to get along and focus on positivity. In this week’s update we will try

(Weekly Update #202) Dear Members and Advocates, Thirty years ago, Los Angeles, California erupted in a series of riots in response to the beating of an unarmed black man by police officers. After nearly two months of frustrated and angry citizens hitting the streets in protest of Police brutality against the minority communities, Rodney King, the victim of the beating

(Weekly Update #198) Dear Members and Advocates, Last week the Brevard County Commissioners voted to add public meetings to the exemption of their proximity ordinance. The decision was largely kept under the radar and is still quite vague, since there was no proposed language to vote on – just a conceptual idea that they would add an exemption. Many members,

(Weekly Update #197) Dear Members and Advocates, It is hard to discuss nomination of a Supreme Court Justice without walking on eggshells, worrying that readers will take it to be political commentary. Ironically, the role of a Supreme Court Justice requires that the holder of the position be fair and impartial. So how did the topic become so polarizing? It

(Weekly Update #196) Dear Members and Advocates, We dodged a bullet. Or, to make a more proportionate reference, we dodged a missile. Senate Bill 1932 went nowhere this legislative session and is officially dead. SB 1932 would have made some incredibly burdensome changes to the registry, the worst of which would have amended the definition of day to be any

(Weekly Update #195) Dear Members and Advocates, This week marks the final week in the 2022 Florida Legislative Session and we are pleased to see that so far we have been successful in our efforts to prevent some of the more concerning bills from moving forward. We will wait for the session to officially close before making any final determinations