Weekly Updates

Weekly 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

  Weekly 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

Weekly 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

Weekly 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

Weekly 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

Weekly Update #32 Dear Members and Advocates, We are in between returning from the National Association for Rational Sex Offense Laws (NARSOL) conference last week and leaving for the Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws (ACSOL) conference in a few days. There will be time for a comprehensive “what we learned” next week, but in the meantime there’s something that

Weekly Update #30 Dear Members and Advocates, Hope everyone had a nice long weekend. It’s time to get back to work! Memorial Day is the day we remember and honor the people who died while serving the United States. Every loss is a tragedy. Losing someone who fought for the freedom of others is worth commemorating. It is with sadness

WARNING: Scams targeting persons required to register continue. Weekly Update #29 Dear Members and Advocates, Scams continue to target persons required to register. Last week a member advised that her husband was the victim of a scam here in Florida. Across the country, yesterday the Santa Rosa Police department posted a warning on Twitter that a similar scam is taking

Weekly Update #28 Dear Members and Advocates, This past weekend, the Florida Action Committee held our annual face-to-face Board of Directors meeting. Members of our board traveled from across Florida to spend most of the day together Saturday, strategizing and planning. While it’s always wonderful to sit down, in person, with the people you work so closely with, it was

Weekly Update #26 Dear Members and Advocates, Legislative session is over and the one bill we were concerned about is dead. The last action on House Bill 987 is that it is “indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration.” This was the bill that would have required in person PRE-registration in the county where a registrant would have stayed in any