Weekly Updates

  (Weekly Update #174) Dear Members and Advocates, There are many misconceptions about the sex offense registry.  One would be hard pressed to find a Florida legislator who is familiar with all of the statutes and ordinances that pertain to people in our state who are forced to register. I have found that most people are shocked when they learn

(Weekly Update #173) Due to technical error, the 10-5-2021 Weekly Update was not delivered to all FAC members.  This is a re-transmission of the 10-5-2021 Weekly Update Dear Members and Advocates, We learned this past week that the first-of-its-kind meta-analysis study on evaluating the effects of SORN on recidivism showed that SORN policies have had NO effect on recidivism. Any

(Weekly Update #171) Dear Members and Advocates, We read in articles so often that parents are horrified that someone with a past sex offense could be living close by.  When such fear takes over, rational thinking stops. Florida’s newly appointed Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo stated in a news conference this past week that Floridians need to reject fears as

(Weekly Update #170) Dear Members and Advocates, Gail Colletta, our FAC President, participated in an interview with the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability (OPPAGA), the research arm of the Florida Legislature.  OPPAGA supports the Florida Legislature by providing data, evaluative research and objective analysis that assist legislative budget and policy deliberations. The agency meets every three years to

(Weekly Update #169) Dear Members and Advocates, One of our members recently shared a quote with us that sends a powerful message to those forced to register:  An investigation in search of a crime.  For many people, there was initially a real crime that was committed; but after completing their sentence, they are now law-abiding citizens.  In fact, I know

(Weekly Update #166) Dear Members and Advocates, When I was indicted, I knew some people were never going to like me. Not so much that they wouldn’t like me, they just wouldn’t like what I had done, and as a result they would ostracize me or villainize me. As horrible as it feels to live life as “persona non grata”,

(Weekly Update #165) Dear Members and Advocates, The St Lucie County Sheriff’s Department and the US Marshals Service reported some great results from a two-week joint initiative dubbed “Operation Watchful Eye”… More than 97% of persons forced to register were found to be compliant and the few that were not, had benign technical violations! The results proved that “Watchful Eye”

(Weekly Update #163) Dear Members and Advocates, This week’s update is somewhat of a continuation of last week’s. Last week, I shared an important revelation; that Smith v. Doe DID NOT find that registration is not punishment. It only found that the pre-2003 version of Alaska’s registry was not punitive. Following up on that concept and in anticipation of our

(Weekly Update #162) Dear Members and Advocates, Even though I’ve been deeply involved in advocacy for nearly a decade, I continue to learn new things and see things from a different perspective from time to time. I once had one of these “ah ha” moments when I realized that I’m not really advocating for reform, but I’m advocating for abolition.

(Weekly Update #161) Dear Members and Advocates, Things have not slowed down AT ALL for FAC  this summer! We’ve had a lot of movement in both Ex Post Facto Plus challenges and we filed our Out of State Challenge. In EPF I, which is currently in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, a reply brief was filed last week and