FAC Requests Clarification from St. Lucie County

Several of our members have forwarded notices they received from St Lucie County, informing them of their County’s rules when it comes to sex offenders and reporting internet identifiers. Deputies in that county have been visiting registrants and giving them a document containing a place for signature. Rather than confuse you with the content of the notice, we are attaching

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Former Camden County Police Department (NJ) “Officer of the Week” fathered child with 15 year old.

We do not post stories about police offers or teachers who sexually assault minors to call them out or shame them. We post these stories to demonstrate that it’s not registered sex offenders who you need to worry about when sending your children to school, but their teachers and coaches. It’s not necessarily the random guy on a list who

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Warning: You could get arrested for obscuring the “Sexual Predator” stamp on your Florida Drivers License.

A registered sex predator was jailed in Clay County after he tried to alter his driver’s license to hide the words “sexual predator” on his driver’s license, a police report said. The Clay County Sheriff’s Office said XXXXXX, 63, placed a sticker over the Sexual Predator decal on his license. XXXXXX is charged with possession of an altered identification card

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Advocacy Works! An example of how one Maine city considered the truth.

It used to be that all you had to do was insert the keyword “sex offender” into whatever law you wanted passed and nobody would have the political will to vote against it. That’s changing. As people are beginning to recognize that statistics previously relied upon were wrong, and the unintended consequences of “well meaning” but tragically flawed laws, the

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Murderer said he would “spend his remaining days killing sexual offenders”

A Canadian man, Derrick Lawlor, who now stands accused of Murder, told his therapist that if he only had two months to live, he would kill every sexual offender. In fact, during a conversation on whether sex offender registries should be public or private, the therapist said he had concerns about public registries, noting that in the United States, some

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WHAT?!? Probation officer only gets one year for sexually assaulting juveniles in his custody.

A story just came out in the LA Times that makes you wonder what kind of influential friends this guy has or what strings he was able to pull in order to get only ONE YEAR for sexual acts with multiple victims between the ages of 15 to 18. And worse… no sex offender registry!!! According to prosecutors, “Calderon was

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Anthony Weiner: Laws coming back to bite him in the a$$

As former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner’s criminal case is progressing through the courts, the government has announced they will be seeking jail time for Weiner, who engaged in sexually explicit texts with a 15 year old high school girl in order to solicit her for sex. Weiner’s attorneys claim he’s now “reformed” and should not do time, but in a

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IMPORTANT: Were you given additional paperwork?

If you were given any paperwork or notices concerning the registry or your responsibility with respect to registration aside from what is given to you during your regular registration or re-registrations, please send a copy of it to legal@floridaactioncommittee.org. We have been advised that individuals in St. Lucie County were given notices concerning their responsibility to register Internet Identifiers which

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CA: Federal lawsuit challenges Simi Valley Halloween sex offender law for second time

For the second time in five years, a federal lawsuit is challenging the constitutionality of a Simi Valley law that bars registered sex offenders listed on the Megan’s Law website from opening their doors to trick-or-treating children on Halloween. The law, enacted by the City Council in September 2012, also forbids the registered sex offenders from decorating the outside of their

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CA: Gov. Brown supports bill sent to him that would end lifetime listing of many sex offenders on public registry

After an emotional debate, state lawmakers on Saturday gave final legislative approval to a controversial bill that would end the lifetime listing of many convicted sex offenders on a public registry in California. The bill, which was shelved then revived, was sent to the governor on the last day of the legislative session with Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher (D-San Diego)

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