Weekly Updates

(Weekly Update #225) Dear Members and Advocates, I have to keep reminding myself that “haters gonna hate” and I need to keep plugging ahead. What I’m talking about are the negative comments that keep popping up in our forum, even when we announce great news! The sad thing is that the negative comments are not coming from vigilantes or pro-registy

(Weekly Update #224) Dear Members and Advocates, Last month for our July 4th Weekly Update we wrote about the Declaration of Independence and the events that led up to the Colonists’ declaring independence from British rule. This week we are reminded of another issue that had made things so intolerable that people had to fight back against their own government.

  (Weekly Update #223) Dear Members and Advocates, For those of you who receive these weekly updates and read them, thank you. Writing these weekly updates and contributing content to the Florida Action Committee is an opportunity to share news and updates with the FAC community and inform our members of new legislation that is being considered, or old legislation

(Weekly Update #222) Dear Members and Advocates, When I was searching for First Amendment firms to help the registrants in Brevard County who were banned from their county commission meeting, I reached out to many nonprofit organizations that focus on freedom of speech. Surprisingly there are a lot of them. I sincerely believed that based on the extraordinary facts in

(Weekly Update #220) Dear Members and Advocates, One of my favorite movies of all time is the 1983 comedy, Trading Places. The movie is about two brothers who are the owners of a large commodities firm. They make a bet on whether they can take two people from opposite ends of the social hierarchy and see if the men are

(Weekly Update #219) Dear Members and Advocates, In 2020, the Brevard County Board of Commissioners came up with an idea. In addition to the schools, parks, playgrounds and daycares that comprise the center of a 1000 foot exclusion zone where people required to register could not enter into, they wanted to allow businesses to be able to self-certify as a

(Weekly Update #218) Dear Members and Advocates, How are you doing today? That’s not a rhetorical question. Literally, how are you doing today? I know you’re reading a weekly update email and there’s nobody to respond to, but that doesn’t mean I don’t want you to ask yourself that question and if it makes you feel better, stand in front

(Weekly Update #217) Dear Members and Advocates, I don’t know why I am so affected by the death of someone I’ve never met and never spoken to. People die all the time. Family gets sick, mass shootings are a daily headline, and death is an inevitable reality of life. Still, for some reason when I heard that Ira had died,

(Weekly Update #215) Dear Members and Advocates, Every July 4th I reflect on the meaning of this holiday and why it is celebrated. In 1776, the founders of this nation got together and wrote this document declaring themselves independent from British rule. The document, fittingly called the “Declaration of Independence”, was basically a list of grievances against the government of

(Weekly Update #213) Dear Members and Advocates, This week (Friday) begins the National Association for Rational Sex Offense Laws (NARSOL) annual conference. Several FAC members will be attending this year’s conference and our own membership chairperson, Anita, will be one of the presenters. These annual events are great for multiple reasons. First, it’s an opportunity to learn about what efforts