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Some policy makers are starting to listen to the concerns of registered citizens and their family members.  Now is not the time to let up but to continue to be strong as a united force.  In the past, proposed restrictions or laws would pass immediately without pause or discussion…but no more.  We are seeing change happen in county and city

Halloween is the most fraught day of the year for our community.  It has been cloaked in fear and libel unnecessarily and irrationally. To many, Halloween is a frivolous day.  Light on cultural baggage and a day to be silly or to have fun.   To some, Halloween is a religious or culturally significant day.  Many cultures honor the deceased in

As the cancer of sex offender ordinances is trying to pass from county to county and municipality to municipality in Florida, we must stay united in our fight against this insanity.  Our FAC board members will tell you that the situation is far from hopeless as more and more opportunities are coming our way to stop what some uninformed individuals

The issue of the clustering of people on the sex offender registry in Tampa continues.  Fortunately the council members are interested in the research and will be holding a workshop on November 30 to study the matter further.  FAC has contacted some experts in this area and is reaching out to the council to hopefully include these people in the

Major Concerns: The need for nursing home care for people required to register is beyond a crisis state – it is catastrophic. Most nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and rehab facilities in Florida are not accepting people on the registry. The two major reasons are: (1) residency restrictions and (2) facilities will not accept people on the sex offender registry.

We sent out two Calls to Action this past June for Volusia County’s proposed sex offender ordinance.  The proposed ordinance was withdrawn, and it appeared to have quietly died.  This was not the case, though, as the sponsor brought it back recently with a vengeance.   This council member calls it “Common sense legislation” – increasing residency requirements in unincorporated areas

At the October 19 Tampa City Council meeting, Dr. Bryanna Fox, a professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of South Florida, was able to help the city commissioners understand that SORN is a complete failure. But unfortunately, the council members do not understand that the state residency restrictions are what is causing the clustering problem.  Some council

This summer, FAC wrote a post on Horowitz’s new book, From Rage to Reason, describing the narratives used in the book to document the failures of the registry and its accompanying laws. Having read the book myself, I know that these are stories that need to be read by our policy makers, whether it be city/county commissioners, state legislators in

Here is the Press Release FAC is in the News once again, this time in the global spotlight.  We give special thanks to attorney David Peery of Miami Coalition to Advance Racial Equality (MCARE)  for connecting FAC to the Human Rights Task Force that organized the visit, presentations, and meetings in Geneva Switzerland last week. Thank you to everyone who

Today, our FAC President Gail Colletta addressed the United Nations Human Rights Committee in Geneva Switzerland to call out the United States’ failure to address the inhumane Registry scheme and specifically the practice of allowing states to create Sex Offender Residency Restrictions (SORRs).  Gail had only two-minutes to define the problem and ask the UN to hold the United States accountable