Florida Action Committee (FAC)

Weekly update for November 3, 2026. This is recording number 402. Dear Members and Advocates, It’s been a busy week for police in the Sunshine State and, of course, Sheriff Grady Judd found another excuse to stand behind a podium flanked by mugshots. You’d think after so many of these the novelty would wear off. You would be wrong. This

Staff Sgt. Jaccob Hearn / U.S. Army National Guard, public domain; John Oliver: Neil Grabowsky / Montclair Film Festival, source, CC BY 2.0; Grady Judd: Desmond Harris / Polk County Sheriff’s Office, source, CC BY-SA 4.0. Composite adaptation shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. The Cameras Love the Arrests. Who Counts the Cost? Opinion and commentary By a Florida Action Committee

Parents want their children to be safe. People on the registry and their families want that, too. A child waiting for a bus and a child living with a parent on the registry both deserve care. Two Florida reports bring us back to the same question: Are we looking at proof of harm, or being asked to fear a label?

Florida’s population growth has brought more people to the state in recent years, including convicted sex offenders and predators. But residency restrictions and limited housing options are contributing to clusters of registered offenders in some Central Florida neighborhoods. Dr. Stephen Holmes, a University of Central Florida criminal justice professor who has spent decades studying violent sex offenders, said clusters are

According to the Miami New Times, GEO Group, one of the nation’s largest private prison and immigration detention companies, has contributed $3.5 million to the political committee supporting Florida Republican gubernatorial nominee Byron Donalds. That includes three separate $1 million contributions in May, September, and October 2026. GEO’s business depends heavily on government contracts to incarcerate people. To be clear,

Two weeks ago, some registrants had reason for cautious optimism about the Second Amendment. Three days later, a federal appeals court in another part of the country showed how fragile that optimism is. On October 13, 2026, the full Third Circuit, sitting en banc, decided Williams v. Attorney General. As we reported in When Exposure Meets the Right to Self-Defense: