Member Submission: Let’s not go there. Please.

FAC, its members, and the registered citizen community are best served by complete solidarity. We do each other a disservice when we engage in partisan preaching. There are enough sources out there for divisive views, we need not introduce them here. We have limited resources and a very clear mission. Let’s stick to that. If an open and fact-based debate

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Reason.com on Gundy: Gorsuch and Sotomayor Showing Signs Of Support

Hopefully you have taken the opportunity to read or listen to the recent oral arguments in the Gundy v. United States case. By many measures, it was a very good start in the Supreme Court case which challenges the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act of 2006 (SORNA) on the grounds that it unconstitutionally delegates legislative powers to the Executive.

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Update: Miami-Dade Encampment

Registrants are still at the Miami-Dade Encampment. Some, because their GPS monitoring will trigger if they leave the area (probation has them designated to) and they don’t want to violate probation and go back to prison for that. Others, because they realize there’s noplace for them to go and they will be violating the overnight camping ordinance wherever they are,

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FAC Letter to Nextdoor.com

Unlike some social media platforms that prevent someone on the registry from creating an account, Nextdoor.com prevents anyone in the same household as a sex offender from creating an account. That includes, spouses, children, roommates and anyone else who happens to share the same address as a registrant. In response to inquiries from members, Nextdoor claims that this policy is

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@FLHouseDems and @FLGOPMajority VOTE NO on HB1301

@F_A_Committee calls on  @FLHouseDems and @FLGOPMajority to VOTE NO on HB1301!  This is a BAD BILL! copy @AaronPBean, @ALJacquet, @ambermariano, @anitere_flores, @asencio2016, @BenDiamondFL, @BillGalvano, @BillMontford, @BlaiseIngoglia, @bobbypaynefl, @Book4Senate, @braddrake5, @BryanAvilaFL, @ByronDonalds, @CarlosGSmith, @CaryPigman, @ChrisLatvala, @ChrisSprowls, @ChuckClemons21, @ClemensFL, @ColleenLBurton, @CordByrd, @CortesBob, @Daisyjbaez, @DanaYoungFL, @DaneEagle, @DannyBurgessFL, @darrylrouson, @david4florida, @DavidRSilvers, @debbie_mayfield, @denisegrimsley, @dennisbaxley, @dhahnflt, @DorothyHukill, @DougBroxson, @dsantiago457, @DSimmonsFL, @DuranForFlorida, @EmilySlosberg, @ErinGrall, @evanjenne, @FrankWhiteFL,

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More Than Half the Registered Sex Offenders in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida are Homeless.

News About Florida Registered Sex Offenders The City of Ft. Lauderdale’s ordinance has caused more than half of the registered sex offenders in the city to be homeless. The City ordinance, which banishes sex offenders from; “within one thousand four hundred (1,400) feet of any of the following:(1) Any school where the majority of the population attending are students less

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SCOTUS refuses to hear PA case that found sex offender registry punishment.

The Supreme Court of the United States today denied a petition from the Cumberland County District Attorney’s Office to review a July decision from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that found the state’s current sex offender registration law was punishment and therefore could not be applied retroactively under ex post facto constitutional grounds! The ruling from the court was brief: PENNSYLVANIA

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BBC to air a feature on Miracle Village – January 24th – calls Florida Sex Offender Laws “Punishment for Life”

Inside the isolated US community dubbed the ‘Miracle Village’ where HALF the population are sex offenders – and strict laws mean they will NEVER return to normal society From the outside it looks like any sleepy suburb, but the so-called ‘Miracle Village’ contains a much darker secret. Indeed, half of the population in the Florida community are registered sex offenders, who

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