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Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Law Unintended Consequences Dear Members and Advocates, In 2017, Forbes Magazine featured an opinion piece titled, “The Well-Meaning ‘Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act’ Could Be A Trojan Horse”, which was written by Larry Magid. He began the article by stating, “It’s hard for me to argue about a proposed law called Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act. After
Read moreWeekly Update 2018-04-24 Dear Members and Advocates, Members who’ve asked “when will we bring a suit to…” will now have a ready answer. We have added a meter to our donations page to let our members know how close we are to funding various legal challenges. In addition to our active challenges, we currently have three proposed suits, one of
Read moreWeekly Update 2018-04-17 Dear Members and Advocates, Happy “Second Chance Month”! What does that mean? “Second Chance Month”. Is that like Black History Month where we recognize great leaders in the civil rights movement? Or is it like National Pancake Month (July) where we are supposed to eat pancakes? I checked the Wikipedia page for these observance months and didn’t
Read moreWeekly Update 2018-04-12 Dear Members and Advocates, This past week we have been debating an incident that took place at an LGBTQ community center. The “incident” is not exactly an incident, but the media has blown it completely out of proportion, as if a nuclear bomb had been found buried in a playground. In 1995 “CC” committed a crime for
Read moreWeekly Update 2018-04-08 Dear Members and Advocates, Sometimes you need to have a sense of humor in this situation. We monitor the news headlines for relevant stories and yesterday several news outlets have written about the new layout of the FDLE sex offender website. It’s a non-issue from most people’s perspective, but an opportunity for the FDLE to give the
Read moreWeekly Update 2018-03-27 Dear Members and Advocates, This weekly update comes to you with amazing news. The City of Ft. Lauderdale’s Sex Offender Residency Restriction was found to be Unconstitutional and a violation of State and Federal laws against retroactive punishment. For more details about this tremendous decision, visit: https://floridaactioncommittee.org/ft-lauderdale-florida-sex-offender-residency-restriction-declared-unconstitutional/. Out of respect to the defendant’s privacy we won’t publish
Read moreWeekly Update 2018-03-23 Dear Members and Advocates, We are (im)patiently waiting for two orders to come down from the court. One in our Internet Identifier case and another in a municipal residency restriction case. Yesterday, attorneys for the plaintiffs in the Internet Identifier case filed a “Notice of Supplemental Authority”, informing the court of a decision last week out of
Read moreWeekly Update 2018-03-06 Dear Members and Advocates, The Supreme Court of the United States will be considering a “sex offender case” in it’s upcoming session. The case is Gundy v. United States and the essential decision the Court is being asked to make is whether the Federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) can be applied retroactively, as written. SORNA, which
Read moreWeekly Update 2018-02-27 Dear Members and Advocates, It wasn’t for the best of reasons, but we got a reprieve from the consideration of Lauren Book’s horrible Senate Bill 1226 that would reduce the number of days a permanent or temporary residence requires registration (from 5 days to 3 days). The Bill was scheduled to be taken up before the Senate
Read moreFAC Weekly Update 2018-02-20 Dear Members and Advocates. Florida Sex Offender News. Two posts on our site this past week received a significant response. The first was about the tragic school shooting in Parkland. The second, concerned a father being denied entrance to a hospital for his son’s surgery because he’s a registered sex offender. While it may seem the
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