Weekly Updates

Weekly Update 2017-09-19 Dear Members and Advocates, Last week, two short-form versions of David Feige’s documentary, Untouchable, were released. One version highlighting the story of an individual on the registry who probably doesn’t deserve to be there for life – intended to humanize those behind the label and remind the public that “sex offenders” are not all beady-eyed dirty old

Weekly Update 2017-09-12 Dear Members and Advocates, It’s difficult to compose a professional member communication when I am so angry and frustrated. This week we saw some of the most heinous examples of hatred and inhumanity this writer has experienced in the more-than-decade I have been dealing with this registry. In the face of a natural disaster that was reported

Weekly Update 2017-09-05 Dear Members and Advocates, There is a lot to update this week, so we will get right to it… Two MAJOR decisions came out within the past week. In Colorado, a federal Judge not only declared the Colorado Sex Offender Registration Act unconstitutional, but went much further and declared it was “Cruel and Unusual Punishment”.  In Indiana,

Weekly Update 2017-08-29 Dear Members and Advocates, We begin this week with an important CALL TO ACTION. We are encouraging all members to make their voices heard by contacting the County Commissioners in Miami-Dade County and encouraging them to repeal the 2500-foot sex offender residency restriction, which is causing over two hundred-fifty registrants to live homeless at the corner of

Weekly Update 2017-08-22 Dear Members and Advocates, This week you get another update about Ron and Lauren Book. Well, not exactly… it’s an update on the homeless situation we’ve been reporting on, but we need to provide some history first. A dozen years ago, lobbyist Ron Book, fought for a law that established a sex offender “exclusion zone”. Essentially a

Weekly Update 2017-08-16 Dear Members and Advocates, This week’s update covers an extremely sensitive topic. Now we know what you must be thinking… sex offender issues are always “sensitive topics”, but this topic is extra sensitive. This week we will be discussing Senator Lauren Book. For those who don’t know, Lauren Book is the daughter of lobbyist Ron Book. As

Weekly Update 2017-08-08 Dear Members and Advocates, Yesterday, The Dobbs Wire circulated a series of essays from a female registrant, Sonia Van den Broek about what life is like on the registry. The series was mostly written a couple of years ago, but the first part was written in 2012, in which she wrote; “Status as a sex offender takes

Weekly Update 2017-08-02 Dear Members and Advocates, In this week’s update, we welcome nearly 75 new members to the Florida Action Committee. A recent membership drive has brought more people to our family and extended our reach into some of the more under-served areas of our State. It is our hope, by continuing to grow and expand, that we become

Weekly Update 2017-07-26 Dear Members and Advocates, Yesterday, almost every media outlet in South Florida featured a story on a round up of homeless sex offenders in Ft. Lauderdale. The big news is that after a multi-week, multi-agency operation dubbed “Not Here Not There”, 22 human beings were not living on the streets where they are “supposed to be”. It’s

Weekly Update 2017-07-19 Dear Members and Advocates, When a court decision is entered, it’s sometimes hard to predict how far-reaching its impact will extend. Case in point; the Supreme Court’s decision in Packingham, which ruled that a State can’t block registrants from social media. As an organization that advocates for registrants and one that happens to be involved in an