Weekly Updates

(Weekly Update #212) Dear Members and Advocates, Like most kids, I used to go to the carnival when it came to town. I remember exiting the tailgate of the station wagon of the carpooling parent, there was a reminder of where and when we’d get picked up,  a cautionary “be careful on the rides” or “don’t eat too much junk”,

(Weekly Update #210) Dear Members and Advocates, Sadly, this past week our country experienced another tragedy that has become all too common over the past several decades. Another school massacre took place in Texas. 21 people were killed, including 19 elementary school students. Now I understand that gun control is a very divisive topic and I’m not looking to go

  (Weekly Update #209) Dear Members and Advocates, I’m going to begin this week’s update with a paraphrase of Justice William Pryor’s observation during oral argument on Does v. Swearingen (Ex Post Facto Plus I) this past week. “Was Rosa Parks too late?” He posed this hypothetical to counsel for the FDLE when counsel argued that the plaintiffs were too

(Weekly Update #208) Dear Members and Advocates, Yesterday, three of our members were able to do something they were not previously allowed to do for more than fifteen years. They were allowed to address their County commissioners at a county commission meeting. It was a long time in the making and required the filing of a lawsuit, but this right,

(Weekly Update #207) Dear Members and Advocates, Yesterday, numerous news outlets reported that lobbyist Ron Book has throat cancer and will begin chemotherapy and radiation treatment next week. Ron Book, has been one of the most outspoken proponents of registration restrictions. He is the architect of the Sex Offender Residency Restriction (SORR), he has publicly called our population “monsters”, he

(Weekly Update #206) Dear Members and Advocates, In addition to working with FAC, I sit on a couple of boards and subcommittees with the goal of fostering successful reentry for individuals who are required to register. This morning’s monthly meeting of one particular subcommittee was held online and attended by some of the most dedicated and qualified people in our

(Weekly Update #204) Dear Members and Advocates, You can’t say the Brevard County Commissioners didn’t see it coming. When they voted on a law to further restrict the exclusion zone for persons forced to register, and then excluded registrants from the public meeting held to discuss that proposal, you couldn’t design a more glaring violation of the First Amendment or

(Weekly Update #203) Dear Members and Advocates, The theme of last week’s update was “can’t we just get along?”. In it, we focused on negative comments and thoughts that have permeated our movement, our forum and ourselves. We left you with the plea to try harder to get along and focus on positivity. In this week’s update we will try

(Weekly Update #202) Dear Members and Advocates, Thirty years ago, Los Angeles, California erupted in a series of riots in response to the beating of an unarmed black man by police officers. After nearly two months of frustrated and angry citizens hitting the streets in protest of Police brutality against the minority communities, Rodney King, the victim of the beating

Dear Members and Advocates, This past week we had the opportunity to offer a free viewing period of the documentary “Untouchable” and we took it.  We planned several events around the film that supported two separate project tracks: It would encourage awareness and participation outside of FAC membership. For the public, media, and legislators we hope that by facing the