Weekly Updates

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

Weekly Update 2017-07-12 Dear Members and Advocates, Many of you have been asking “what’s being done” about the newly enacted “Internet Identifier” law that went into effect two weeks ago. We appreciate everyone’s patience as those involved worked feverishly to prepare a response to the new law instead of answering everyone’s questions. We are now able to announce that yesterday,

Weekly Update 2017-07-04 Dear Members and Advocates, Happy July 4th!!! Every year, on this calendar day, we commemorate freedom from oppression. On July 4, 1776, the 13 colonies declared their independence from Great Britain, who had been taxing and subjecting the colonists to unjust treatment decades. Since the Intolerable Acts of 1744, the British used cruelty and propaganda against the

Weekly Update 2017-06-27 Dear Members and Advocates, Yesterday, Governor Rick Scott signed HB 699 into law. What the bill did was modify the definition of Internet Identifier and defined the term “social Internet communication”. Basically, in addition to registering ones “Internet Identifier”, they must now also register the “website homepage” or “application software name” with the FDLE. The new definition

Weekly Update 2017-06-19 Dear Members and Advocates, This week’s “weekly update” is hitting your inboxes a bit early because we have some significant news to report. This morning, the US Supreme Court’s Opinion in “Packingham” came out and Packingham WON! Packingham is the case of the North Carolina registrant who posted a comment on his Facebook account. When the police

Weekly Update 2017-06-13 Dear Members and Advocates; Tonight, FAC is co-hosting a viewing event of Untouchable in Tampa, followed by a panel discussion. Another viewing is scheduled in Ft. Lauderdale on June 20th. We want you to come, but much more importantly, we want you to help spread the word and encourage others to come. We need community leaders, religious