Florida Action Committee (FAC)

Weekly update for August 18, 2026. This is recording number 387. Dear Members and Advocates, So, how was your week? Anything exciting happen? Well, we filed a historic lawsuit challenging Florida’s sex offender registry, and that’s just the beginning! This past week has been one of the most significant weeks in the history of the Florida Action Committee. After years

FAC NOTE: FAC is not publishing this report to shame, harass, or prejudge the alleged offender. The purpose is to make an important point: people who commit sexual harm can come from every walk of life—including people who hold positions of political or governmental authority. Palm Beach County Clerk of Court Michael Caruso was arrested Tuesday morning and immediately suspended

Every enforcement system runs on two currencies: authority and money. The authority is written into statute. The money is harder to see, because it does not sit in one place. It is scattered across federal grant conditions, state appropriations, county budgets, court dockets, jail rosters, and technology contracts—each justified on its own terms, each defensible in isolation, and each part

FAC has received a lot of media attention this week because of our lawsuit challenging Florida’s sex offender registry. Some of that coverage has been in mainstream media, and some has been across social media. The mainstream media coverage has been professional, factual, and largely neutral. The comments underneath those stories and on social media, however, have been a different

We are well under way with our 2026-2027 FAC email campaign. Our focus this year is an bill for the Florida Legislature whose purpose is to allow youthful offenders to petition for removal from the registry after 10 years instead of after 25 years. This is FAC’s first ever bill, a momentous event! Every time an email on a particular

For the second time that the issue has come before the Supreme Court of Florida and for the second time that the decision was unanimous, the Supreme Court put an end to the FDLE’s attempt to reverse a Trial Court’s Order removing a registrant from the Florida Sex Offender Registry. Florida Statute Section 943.0435(11) provides a mechanism for people on