Weekly Updates

Weekly Update #245 Dear Members and Advocates, There are a few decisions in my life that I’m not particularly proud of. The first is the obvious. The second, is that at one time in my life I was a smoker. Not a multi-pack-a-day guy, but more of a social smoker. Out for drinks I’d have a few and during the

Weekly Update #244 Dear Members and Advocates, Something stinks in Highlands County, Florida and it’s not the exhaust fumes from the Sebring International Raceway. The stench is coming from the Highlands County Sheriff’s Office’s sex offender unit, where two detectives have been going above and beyond to terrorize people on the registry by coming up with their own set of

Weekly Update #242 Dear Members and Advocates, There’s that Benjamin Franklin saying about the only certainties in life being death and taxes. I’m sure there are some out there who have figured out a way to evade taxes, but to my knowledge there’s nobody out there who has been able to live forever. Personally, I’m not afraid of dying. It’s

Member Update #241 Dear Members and Advocates, Albert Einstein said, “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” The theme to the last few posts on our website has been “The Sex Offender Registry Failed Them”. In those posts we point out how the registry failed minors who were sexually assaulted by

Weekly Update #240 Dear Members and Advocates, Yesterday, FAC submitted a Complaint to the United Nations Human Rights Council against the United States’ public sex offender registry. It asked the High Commissioner of Human Rights of the UN to investigate the registry for human rights violations. The UN’s Human Rights Complaint procedure addresses complaints from individuals or groups who are

Weekly Update 239 Dear Members and Advocates, Last week was Halloween and police departments across the country conducted their usual round up of people required to register as sex offenders not committing sex offenses, but violating illogical, confusing and in many cases, unconstitutional laws that would not be crimes for anyone, anywhere, but for the person being on the registry.

Weekly Update #238 Dear Members and Advocates, Last week, the Canadian Supreme Court ruled that mandatory sex offender registration and lifetime sex offender registration were unconstitutional. Basically, removing a Judge’s discretion to determine whether someone warrants this label and all the restrictions that come with it, or mandating that someone be on it for life, violates Canada’s Charter of Rights

( Weekly Update #236) Dear Members and Advocates, This week we write to share very exciting news! The appeal to the 11th Circuit in the “Ex Post Facto Plus I” case was successful! The order came out on Friday and it was not only great for our case, but we suspect it will be precedent setting for others. It was

(Weekly Update #235) Dear Members and Advocates, One month ago, we made an announcement that we thought was radical. We announced that the Florida Action Committee was modifying our position to clearly and unambiguously state that we seek to abolish the registry. No more “advocates for reform” no suggestion of “baby steps” or “chipping away”, no coddling the audience. Only:

(Weekly Update #234 ) Dear Members and Advocates: This past week, the [President of the United States], recognizing the massive failure of a long standing policy and the draconian unintended collateral consequences it has caused, took measures to roll back [marijuana possession laws]. This move comes in the wake of years of research proving that the original policies were largely