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Weekly Update #45 Dear Members and Advocates, It was a good week in courts across the country as three opinions came out that were favorable to our advocacy. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals (the Federal circuit covering Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah and Wyoming) held that while a court can still ban internet use, a special condition of
Read moreWeekly Update #44 Dear Members and Advocates, If you live in Volusia or Polk Counties, chances are you were recently the target of “Operation Neptune”, “Operation Karma”, or some other creatively named law enforcement effort that spanned months, involved assistance of multiple agencies, and yielded crumbs. It’s the same template… Headlines read “Operation [INSERT OBTUSE NAME] nets [INSERT NUMBER] sex
Read moreWeekly Update #43 Dear Members and Advocates, This past weekend 31 people lost their lives in mass shootings. The cities of El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio were rocked and in the wake of the tragedies politicians and the public are scrambling to propose a “fix”. We are already familiar with the gun control debate, but if nothing changed after
Read moreWeekly Update #41 Dear Members and Advocates, The Jeffrey Epstein saga raises a concern about plea deals. According to last week’s Order from his bond hearing, “[F]rom at least in or about 2002, up to and including at least in or about 2005” Epstein did some very bad things. “In the fall of 2007, [he] entered into a non-prosecution agreement”
Read moreWeekly Update #40 Dear Members and Advocates, The message of this week’s update is “Support”. Whether you are seeking support, offer support, or have knowledge of support resources, we need to hear from you. Please submit a referral using the new “Add a Resource” form on the Resources page at https://floridaactioncommittee.org/resource-referral-submission/. With the help of our County Coordinators, the FAC
Read moreWeekly Update #39 Dear Members and Advocates, There’s nothing like waking up to an amazing article debunking the myths surrounding our population. This morning, as we scanned the headlines, we came across this freshly posted article in the Huffington Post by Journalist Michael Hobbes, who certainly did his research, spoke with the experts and took a very brave position in
Read moreWeekly Update #37 Dear Members and Advocates, To stay on top of current events impacting our advocacy work, we set up filters that scan the search engines for keywords relevant to our cause. Among the keywords are the ones you would expect, including “Sex offender and Florida”. This week, as you might imagine, our inbox was filled with headlines
Read moreWeekly Update #36 Dear Members and Advocates, On June 12th the cluster of homeless persons required to register was forced to move again. This is the same group that has been shuffled from under the Julia Tuttle Causeway, then kicked out of Shorecrest, then kicked out of the encampment on 27th Avenue, then kicked out from the Railroad Tracks, now
Read moreWeekly Update #34 Dear Members and Advocates, The decision came down from the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) in Gundy v. United States and the Court decided to affirm the lower court’s decision. We already posted an analysis on what this means to for us here in Florida (see: https://floridaactioncommittee.org/gundy-what-does-it-mean-for-us/ – and for those who don’t have time
Read moreWeekly Update #33 Dear Members and Advocates, Some people travel to Los Angeles hoping to run into celebrities or rock stars. My trip to LA for the Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws (ACSOL) provided just that. To myself and most people in the advocacy community, Eric Janus, Ira Ellman, Adele Nicholas, Emily Horowitz, Janice Bellucci and the others that presented
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