With Unity Comes Change
Weekly Update 2017-03-21 Dear Members and Advocates, This week’s message is about stopping the dehumanization of registrants and we need to all get on board with an action plan to address it. This morning, as I scanned the headlines to see if there was any relevant news to post to our site, I came across the story of a body
Read moreWeekly Update 2017-03-14 Dear Members and Advocates, If you are in Miami-Dade, Broward, Monroe or Palm Beach Counties, we encourage you to come out to the special screening of the film, “Untouchable” that will be taking place tonight, at 7:30PM, at the corner of Northwest 71st Street and 36th Court, in Miami. The event will be important for a number
Read moreWeekly Update 2017-03-07 Dear Members and Advocates, Today, March 7, 2017 marks the beginning of the legislative session in Tallahassee. The session is a 60-day period where the Florida Senate and the House of Representatives, our elected representatives in government, hear, consider and vote on Bills that were introduced. As we expected, Lauren Book (the daughter of Lobbyist, Ron Book),
Read moreWeekly Update 2017-02-28 Dear Members and Advocates, This morning I woke up feeling hopeful. It was the first time in a long time that I felt the courts are beginning to look at reason, consider the studies and have the political will to do the right thing. As NPR News called it, yesterday was “sex day” at the US Supreme
Read moreWeekly Update 2017-02-21 Dear Members and Advocates, Things are happening in Tallahassee. It’s that time of year, where bills are introduced, they are kicked around in legislative committees and we need to be contacting our senators and representatives letting them know how we feel about them. There are some bills that are good and some that are bad. Here’s our
Read moreWeekly Update 2017-02-14 Dear Members and Advocates, Megan, Jessica, Adam… all child victims of sexual abuse and murder whose names have now been turned into legacy through laws designed to punish sex offenders. The actual killers of these children are now dead or serving a life sentence. The irony is they will never be subjected to the punitive laws created
Read moreWeekly Update 2017-02-08 Dear Members and Advocates, This past week, we saw our first significant “sex offender” Bill come out of the Florida Senate and it concerns Internet Identifiers. It would seem; in response to the issuance of an injunction in the Internet Identifier legal challenge, the legislature is seeking to pass a more “watered down version” of the Internet
Read moreAn important correction to a statement made in this week’s weekly update. The weekly update incorrectly stated the 2014 Statute is enjoined. In fact, it was the October 1, 2016 change that was enjoined, NOT the 2014 Statute. Sorry for any confusion this may have caused.
Read moreWeekly Update 2017-02-01 Dear Members and Advocates, In Naples, a petition is circulating to increase the residency restrictions. We know that sex offender residency restrictions do not work and there is a wealth of studies out there proving this fact, including: * No Place to Call Home: Rethinking Residency Restrictions for Sex Offenders<http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/bctw36&div=14&id=&page=> * Hidden challenges: Sex offenders legislated into
Read moreWeekly Update 2017-01-24 Dear Members and Advocates, This past week we got a new president. Donald Trump promises to be the “law and order” president, which would likely be very unfriendly to our cause. At the same time, President Trump touts himself as an astute businessman and therefore would have to question what return on our country’s investment does mass
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