Thursday, August 27, 2015

Florida ActionCommittee Recent Posts - August 27, 2015


Collateral damage: Harsh sex offender laws may put whole families at risk
August 27, 2015
When William Quarles, 38, bolts from his desk around 5:30 most weeknights, he’s up against his most important deadline of the day. Quarles is an audiovisual editor and social...
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It gets more pathetic; Registered Citizen arrested for participation in Church

August 27, 2015
It gets more and more pathetic. Now, out of North Carolina, a registered citizen was arrested for participating in Church. Not for offending in a church, for merely...
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Alabama Sex Offender Law Challenged

August 27, 2015
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (CN) - Sex offenders in Alabama must comply with debilitating restrictions that encompass "virtually every facet of their lives," eight men claim in a class...
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Unrelated but a must see: Windows 10

August 26, 2015
Surveillance into our private lives has been on the minds of Americans for quite some time. Even before Edward Snowden, the former NSA computer operator, exposed the fact that...
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Monday, August 24, 2015

CA:Solution for improved registered sex offender compliance



LIVERMORE, Calif., Aug. 19, 2015 /PRNewswire/ 

-- Vigilant Solutions and Watch Systems announce today that they have worked together, and in close collaboration with mutual customers, to provide improved abilities to manage registered sex offender compliance efforts throughout the country.

Township learns about sex offender, group home - PostBulletin.com: Crime & Courts

Township learns about sex offender, group home - PostBulletin.com: Crime & Courts

Florida Action Committee | Reform Florida Sex Offender Laws to Make Florida Safer for Children. With Unity Comes Change: Aug. 21-24, 2015



Jeff Ashton, state attorney for the Ninth Judicial Circuit in Florida BUSTED on Ashley Madison

August 24, 2015
“I am looking for someone who has fantasies we can act out,”
"A “big toy collection” would not be all that bad either," “I want
someone that fantasizes about being brought to a...



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Courts are giving reduced terms to many child-porn defendants

August 23, 2015
U.S. District Judge James S. Gwin of the Northern District of
Ohio polled a jury in February about what jurors thought a suitable
sentence would be for Ryan Collins, a child...



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Were you denied entry into another country?


August 21, 2015
If you or someone you know was denied entry into another
country as a consequence of registration, we want to hear from you. A new group, organized under RSOL National, is...


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Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Florida Action Committee Recent Posts - August 12 -18, 2015


The system for punishing sex offenders is broken

August 18, 2015
Think “sex offender,” and you probably picture a creepy guy who tries to lure children into his van with candy. But that’s not the whole picture. The sex offender registry, which...
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Misleading Numbers on the Sex Offender Registry

August 18, 2015
This news report from Arkansas points out the discrepancy on the numbers reported on their registry, as it includes deceased registrants as well as those that are incarcerated....
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Homeless Sex Offenders at Greater Risk to Reoffend

August 18, 2015
This article out of Vermont contained some very insightful quotes that I wanted to share here, concerning homeless sex offenders. They echo our position and the position that...
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Ron Book’s Lobbying Firm Received Over Two Million Dollars Last Quarter

August 17, 2015
There's very little that we want to write about Ron Book. The fact is; some things are so obvious they speak for themselves. It was recently reported that his lobbying firm took...
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Miami-Dade Encampment Approaches 200

August 17, 2015
Every so often we like to update our readers on the encampment of homeless registrants living by the railroad tracks in Miami-Dade County. Miami-Dade residency restrictions,...
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Media and other organizations being called on their lies.

August 16, 2015
The following was posted on SOSEN's website and I thought it was worthwhile republishing here:   I really wish the media and any other organization would stop publishing,...
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NY Times: Sex Offenders Locked Up on a Hunch

August 16, 2015
The New York Times has been giving some attention to our cause lately! Good for you; NY Times!!! It's about time a reputable news outlet started reporting the truth!  ...
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Channel 10 has a slow news day

August 14, 2015
Whenever South Florida ABC affiliate WPLG has a slow news day they air something about "sex offenders". Check out today's "intended to scare you" video and headline:...
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EDITORIAL: Sex Offender Registry Review A Tricky Task

August 13, 2015
Connecticut's sex offender registry was created in 1998 to protect the public. Does it work? A committee of the Connecticut Sentencing Commission hopes to answer that question in...
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Indiana Court rules State can’t ban an offender’s access to pornography.

August 12, 2015
A federal appeals court in Indiana overturned a ban on adult pornography on probation, ruling the pornography was protected under the First Amendment. Florida probation has a...
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Update on our experiment

August 12, 2015
Yesterday, we posted an article titled "Police Questioning Registrants in Jacksonville" and began by suggesting this will be a real-life experiment. Sadly, an 8 year old girl was...
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Another Internet Identifier Case WINS in Illinois

August 12, 2015
A McLean County Judge in Illinois ruled that the reporting of internet identifiers is unconstitutional because it violates offenders' rights to free speech. The judge ruled that...
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How about treating sex offenders like humans?

Rosenblum: How about treating sex offenders like Humans?
Minneapolis Star Tribune

... loved one will be released from the embattled Minnesota Sex Offender Program. ... It's likely that, over the next several years, many former offenders will ... people, social issues, trends, and the complexities of human relationships. 

Thursday, August 6, 2015

Florida Action Committee - August 7, 2015

Judge may let teen on sex registry withdraw guilty plea

August 6, 2015
Niles — A southwest Michigan judge who placed an Indiana teen on the sex offender registry for having sex with an underage girl is considering allowing the teen to withdraw his...
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Dear 37 Million Ashley Madison customers: Welcome to Our World

August 5, 2015
I am a registered sex offender. Now, before you get convulsions, reach for your pistol, knife, baseball bat, scream obscenities, flip me off, or whatever, hear me out, because...
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Open letter to Parents for Megan’s Law and Laura Ahearn, Executive Director

August 4, 2015
Your site is advertised as an advocacy for children focused on preventing sexual abuse.   Yet this, from your own site, tells a very different story: “Most parents and...
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Florida FOR-PROFIT prison group to run Texas civil committment center

August 4, 2015
Last week it was announced that Florida-based Correct Care Recovery Solutions will be operating the new Civil Commitment Center in West Texas. Correct Care Recovery Solutions is...
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CNN: How a dating app hookup landed a teen on the sex offender registry

August 4, 2015
This is a must watch: http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/03/us/dating-app-sex-offender-registry/index.html Hopefully it will be a catalyst for public conversation, which really needs to...
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NEWSWEEK: The FBI Built a Database to Catch Rapists—But Almost Nobody Uses It

Is Zachery Anderson's sex-offender label fair? - CNN.com






19-year-old Zachery Anderson's placement on the sex-offender registry highlights our country's desperate need for registry reform


www.cnn.com|By Jill Levenson

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"When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect."
~Adlia Stevenson U.S. Vice President (1893–1897) and Congressman (1879–1881)

On a Personal Note

Thanks for the opportunity to express my thoughts regarding the issue of citizens’ rights, particularly addressing certain sex offenders’ crimes that do not fit the devastating, inequitable and endless punishment given.


As you know, many young men and women lives across the nation are being destroyed by incarceration, life-time registry and restrictive laws that do more harm than good. For those individuals, there is no second chance.

Below is a personal letter to President Obama:
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“Dear President Obama,

I truly agree with your sentiments that individuals, such as ex-felons, should be able to receive a second chance at life. Since we all know that one can veer off that path of life and travel along rough, rocky terrain, sometimes running off and ending up in some ditch. We all have made our fill of mistakes and sometimes those held a costly consequence that changed life forever. So we lived through it, trying harder to make things right with family, friends and those around us, but what about those who aren’t able to make things right even if they tried…because they’re labeled as too dirty, a leper, a person who is rejected from society and home.


But what if they’re a seventeen year old and had sex with a fifteen year old, consensual at that? Or they’re a teen that had gotten so enraged after a breakup that he sent out naked pictures of his girlfriend on his cell phone or email? Or an individual urinates where someone just happens to see them?


All are wrong and a travesty but do they deserve the life of no second chance with a registry that ends all. They are labeled, no jobs, no where to live…they have been deemed a menace to society, a plague. These certain circumstances, and many other situations similar to these, I believe still deserve a second change.

Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution


Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.


After my son’s early release and two years of prison, I thought I had handled that fact graciously knowing after serving his time he would be able to get that fresh start, that second chance. He was an exemplary inmate, GED, college courses and vocational classes. Little did I know that a second chance on the outside was the farthest from the truth? He now struggles and lives in a trailer park sharing a trailer with another and surrounded by others in the same rocking boat, one to float endlessly in shark infested waters. I see him little because of probation requirements (he couldn’t live with us because we were 800 feet near a school). My family is afraid of what would happen to them if he lived with them…vigilantism. My son has no other place to stay since others condemn him of his crime that is screamed from the highest rooftop. Sex offender, sex offender!

Not all sex offenders are pedophiles or predators but some are simply young kids that make one stupid and rash decision that eventually changes everything, and they have no idea what they’ve done until their life is never their own. Exactly, where is that second chance for those sex-offenders who are lumped together with pedophiles and predators? Now, it makes me sick to think of my son’s future and many like him that are on the registry and many with no second chance…ever. I am asking you as a mother and as another concerned citizen of the United States that these laws are looked at again and taken into serious consideration in what they are doing to the Constitution of the United States, not for sex offenders in general but the future rights of every citizen, before anymore are put into effect. They unjustly strip an offender of their rights and place them in a guillotine that can be easily set off by anyone and at anytime. Where is the second chance for ex-sex offenders in the present, pending and future laws?”
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What truly saddens me is the weakness and deterioration of what the sex offense issue is doing to our once, great nation. Across Europe, others are seeing the injustice and disregard of rights, but we ignore this problem and it makes me wonder where humanity is heading….

We have become a hysterical society in which our latest witch-hunt is a sex offender--no matter his/her crime.

Below is a email sent from a foreign advocate to a father of a sex offender:
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“The tragic story of your son's death is just so sad that it's difficult to explain how. It was very hard to read your letters. It seems almost unbelievable that this can take place in a democracy! From our point of view, there is no justice in this. Not in any way: not for you, your son, the former girl friend – or even the state.

It is an abusive legal system. It seems barbaric. And we are so very sorry that this takes place. That's why it's so important for us to try to neutralize the debate with this…, hopefully making some changes. ….. to show the every day life of the sex offenders, trying to show how they keep on being punished, even after served prison time…..But we will for sure tell the story of the injustice that your son has been exposed to.”
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I appreciate everyone's commitment and backing to protect everyone's civil rights, plainly as noted in the Constitution of the United States and is presupposed, giving ALL men are “life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.”