Weekly Updates

Weekly Update #51 Dear Members and Advocates: When I first became involved with FAC, I fielded a lot of calls and emails from people caught up in “sex offender stings”. These “stings” are painted by law enforcement as operations seeking to catch adults trolling the internet for children to have sex with. Like most of the general public who didn’t

Weekly Update #50 Dear Members and Advocates: Three years ago I was very angry at Galen Baughman. Galen was an outspoken anti-registry activist. He had recently been awarded a Soros Fellowship, he was just featured by a respected NY Journalist, and most publicly he had put out a great TED Talk called “Are We All Sex Offenders?” which we hoped

Weekly Update #49 Dear Members and Advocates, With 2019 being the “Year of the Family”, for our 2019 legal challenge we decided not to bring a lawsuit challenging registration requirements on behalf of people on the registry, but a lawsuit challenging registration requirements on behalf of people not on the registry! The lawsuit will be brought on behalf of their

Weekly Update #47 Dear Members and Advocates, As Hurricane Dorian continues to threaten the east coast of Florida, our first hope is that you and your families are taking precautions to keep yourselves safe from the storm. For those who are subject to evacuation orders, we have set up a post on our site to exchange information on where you

Weekly Update #46 Dear Members and Advocates, Yesterday, a Motion for Reconsideration was submitted in the “In-Person Challenge”. Last week, a Federal District Court Judge ruled that the plaintiff, Matthew 25 Ministries, Inc. did not have standing to sue on behalf of their members. While the dismissal of the case on those grounds was disappointing, the order itself was anything

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

Weekly 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

Weekly 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

Weekly 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”

Weekly 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