Weekly Updates

Weekly Update #64 Dear Members and Advocates, This week’s update is directed at television station WJXT and their news show News4Jax (@wjxt4)… Shame on you! The backstory: A few days ago, two children went missing in Jacksonville, Florida. Yesterday, before those children were (most importantly) found safe, News4Jax aired a story they titled “30 sex offenders, predators in 2-mile radius

Weekly Update #63 Dear Members and Advocates, Yesterday I woke up after a decent night’s sleep, took a shower, grabbed a cup of coffee and drove to work. I put in a full day at the office, drove back home and had some dinner. That’s pretty much my routine each day. I’m sure most of you are asking yourselves why

Weekly Update #61 Dear Members and Advocates, In September, we announced that our next legal challenge would be the “Non-Registrant Collateral Consequences (NRCC) Challenge”. 2019 has been FAC’s “year of the family”. We have engaged more non-registrants into our advocacy, we coordinated family support groups with treatment providers, and there is no way to better end the year than by

Weekly Update #60 Dear Members and Advocates, For as many years as I’ve been preparing the weekly updates, the Thanksgiving week update is the one that I’ve always struggled the most with. As I reflect on all the things I’m thankful for, a part of me always feels very guilty. Many among us won’t be celebrating the holiday with a

Weekly Update #59 Dear Members and Advocates, It’s been a busy week. The first priority in this week’s update is to recognize those members who have stepped up lately. The members who attended the Clay County Board of County Commissioners meeting recently and the members who posted responses and sent letters in response to a “fake news” story out of

Weekly Update #58 Dear Members and Advocates, Today we honor our nation’s military Veterans. To our members who have served in the US Armed Forces, we thank you for your service! The topic of this week’s update is mistakes. We’re not referring to the crimes committed by those on the registry, but mistakes made on the other end of the

Weekly Update #56 Dear Members and Advocates, One of the benefits of regularly visiting our site or participating in our monthly member calls is access to information you need to avoid unknowingly violating a registration requirement or becoming a victim of the latest scam targeting persons on the registry. This newest scam is a particularly heinous one. Extortionists are using

Weekly Update #55 Dear Members and Advocates: It’s Halloween week. The time of year persons required to register dread because news reports and vigilantes are focused on them. Some literally have signs posted at their homes! It’s an unnecessary shaming ritual that repeats itself annually. This year, two sister organizations, NARSOL and ACSOL, will be hosting a Halloween Marathon. It’s

Weekly Update #54 Dear Members and Advocates: Is it time to sue Facebook? The social media giant has a policy of banning persons required to register as sex offenders from their platform. Their Terms of Service expressly prohibit registrants from being on the platform and they even have a policy for removing profiles from persons required to register. Part of

Weekly Update #53 Dear Members and Advocates, Attorneys for the John Doe plaintiffs in the “Ex Post Facto Plus” challenge will have some important discovery from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement in their hands next week. Yesterday, a Federal Court Judge denied the FDLE’s motion for a protective order blocking the compelled answers to interrogatories propounded by Val Jonas