Weekly Updates

Dear Members and Advocates, Florida homelessness ranks third in the nation, reporting 27,487 homeless people (HUD’s Annual Homeless Assessment Report)  We frequently receive reports and stories of persons and families forced into homelessness because of SO Residency Restrictions (SORR). Often, they have homes to go to during the day, but Residency Restrictions force them into the homeless status at night….you

Dear Members an Advocates, 2023 marks the 50th year since the U.S. prison population began its extraordinary surge. To date over five million people are under supervision by the criminal legal system, and nearly two million people, disproportionately Black, are currently incarcerated in our nation’s jails and prisons. This represents a 500 percent increase since 1973. How did we get here? Many of the conditions

Dear Members and Advocates, Take a minute to look back on the pandemic period of 2020.  As the world was encouraging individuals to take every conceivable precaution to protect themselves and others from spreading the Coronavirus, those concerns did not apply to people required to register.   In the middle of a pandemic, the Florida Governor still required people on the registry

Weekly Update for July 25, 2023 Dear Members and Advocates,   Florida Action Committee (FAC) is the Florida state affiliate for the National Association for Rational Sex Offense Laws (NARSOL).  FAC was well represented at the NARSOL conference in Houston last month and plans are underway to make it feasible for more FAC members to attend the 2024 conference next

FAC Weekly Update 2023-07-04 Dear Members and Advocates, Today we celebrate Independence Day, commonly known as the Fourth of July.  It holds significant historical and cultural importance in the United States, serving as a reminder of the country’s founding principles of liberty, equality, and self-governance. It is a day of celebration, unity, and remembrance, as Americans come together to honor

Weekly Update for 2023-06-16-ID#262. Dear Members and Advocates,   Today we celebrate Father’s Day, a day honoring one’s father, or relevant father figure, as well as fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society.  For several years, FAC has described the laws in FL as being “anti-family” laws as they force families apart, break paternal bonds, and alienate

Weekly Update for 06/08/2023 Dear Members and Advocates, This Weekly Update brings more unity and change.  First, oral arguments were heard last week on the motion for summary judgement in the Ex Post Facto II case in the Northern District Court.  We have been asked by the attorneys to remain patient, as they are expecting to receive an opinion from

Dear Members and Advocates,   A few weeks ago, I asked some women to share their thoughts about motherhood in recognition and celebration of Mother’s Day.  After reading several of their stories, I was left paralyzed, and in no mood to celebrate anything.   There was the mother who never dreamed she would be visiting her son in prison.  There

Weekly Update 2023-05-25 Dear Members and Advocates, This month we witnessed firsthand the power in numbers.  A momentum started that we cannot ignore as we progress toward our goal of abolishing the registry.  An important part of this movement that has begun is making sure that we acknowledge and thank the people in the Florida Legislature that stood up for

Post 02/23/2023 Dear Members and Advocates: I am yet to meet a person that has not experienced anxiety at some point in their life.  But for many of us, the anxiety seems constant….weekly, daily, even hourly for some. We need to be reminded that anxiety solves nothing, and only brings on negativity that drains us mentally, emotionally and physically. The