A Demographic Review of Florida’s Registry
A review of December data on the Florida Registry shows the following:
| Total Individuals On the Registry | 85,224 | 100% |
| Absconded | 1,108 | 1.3% |
| Civil Commitment | 508 | .6% |
| Confinement | 19,606 | 23% |
| Deceased | 1,058 | 1.2% |
| Deported | 3,526 | 4.1% |
| Citizens Forced to Register | (59,418) | |
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30,492 | 35.8% |
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28,926 | 33.9% |
A further breakdown of the 28,926 citizens forced to register:
Status:
| Supervised – FL DOC | 6,114 | 21.1% |
| Supervised – FL Dept Juv Justice | 21 | .1% |
| Supervised – US Govt | 732 | 2.5% |
| Registered | 22,059 | 76.3% |
Further Status:
| Juvenile | 247 | 1% |
| Offender | 24,701 | 85% |
| Predator | 3,978 | 14% |
Race:
| Asian | 140 | .5% |
| Black/African American | 6,916 | 23.9% |
| Indian/Indigenous | 40 | .1% |
| Undeclared | 102 | .4% |
| White | 21,728 | 75.1% |
| *Hispanic is not separated or distinguished |
Sex:
| Male | 28.112 | 97.2% |
| Female | 814 | 2.8% |
Age:
| Under 20 | 39 | .1% |
| 20-29 | 1,090 | 3.8% |
| 30-39 | 3,962 | 13.7% |
| 40-49 | 6,705 | 23.2% |
| 50-59 | 7,272 | 25.1% |
| 60-69 | 6,228 | 21.5% |
| 70-79 | 2,810 | 9.7% |
| 80+ | 820 | 2.8% |
Date of Permanent Address:
| Prior to 12/31/04 | 2,283 | 7.9% |
| 01/01/05-12/31/09 | 2,304 | 7.9% |
| 01/01/10-12/31/14 | 3,414 | 11.8% |
| 01/01/15-12/31/19 | 7.016 | 24.4% |
| 01/01/20-end of 2023 | 13,465 | 46.5% |
| Without Permanent Address | 444 | 1.5% |
Source: FDLE Sexual Offenders and Predators Search
This reporting should be used figuratively and generally versus literal and particular breakdowns of the data. Debate will always exist over decisions made to include/exclude in different categories. Rounding has occurred with percentages which may affect totals.
I’m sure, they would like the amount of people on the confinement statistics, to be higher. Let’s face it, those who are against us, don’t want us free and about.
This proves the registry is punitive. What is the point of making someone be on the Florida registry (Which is supposed to show you who to look out for) if they do not even live here? How can you be afraid of someone 6 states away, where they actually live?
AND for God’s sake, Dead people on the registry, really?
I was going over my case with someone an they saw that we are all being punished for Jesse Timmendequas crime.
I agree. I do not live n Florida, never did, but because my wife and I spend 2 weeks a year visiting relatives I had to register.
Not only did I have to register but I found out last year on our Florida visit that Florida has me listed as a felon, I am not a felon in my home state.
Mac >> don’t quote me but I think there is a case pending about Florida leaving people on their registry after they have left the state.
Allen, thanks for the info. I will do a search, we can hope.
@Mac
Mac, you are not a felon, but if you were, you would be an “Ex-felon” unless you are still committing crimes. Felon suggests you are still doing the bad behavior.
Mac, you are not a sex offender but an “Ex-offender” same as above. People love labels though, especially the ones that make people depressed like Leper colonies back in the day. It is all great and good to banish those people, that is until those people become the ones who are labeled.
I have never tried to judge people but even less so after what happened to me. Most people look at the homeless with disgust and yell at them to get a job. Pretty hard to get a job when you do not even have an address.
@CherokeeJack. That was very kind. I had no criminal history before I was sentenced and still do not.
I have however never gotten over what happened and constantly reminded every time I go to Florida or register.
Is great to have all this support on this blog.
Thank you !
Would love to see a breakdown of taxpayer funds via the registry.
I got a great idea, based on their past behavior. Why not go all the way back in the records and add everyone on the registry going back to the 1800s. That would make about as much since as adding people who have since passed away or only came for a few days and left.
The proof is right in front of judges faces about how punitive this is and yet, they turn a blind eye. I understand justice is supposed to be blind, but we are not getting justice.
CherokeeJack>>> It’s been ruled that is not punitive but here we are being punished for someone else’s crime. It’s coming out soon with what they did. If you didn’t live through it you would never notice it. Look at the retroactive numbers in E.B. v Verniero 8/25/1997 just before Florida law. 1172 New Jersey retroactive 528 Level 1, 585 Level 2, 59 Level 3. These retroactive numbers were from New Jersey as a Retroactive State who provided “Due Process” before the 5/17/1996 Federal Amendment. What made them mad was they wanted 59 not 528 to be public an that 1113 be made public. So what they did with this Federal Amendment was just remove the Level 1 in name only remove nothing off our end to reduce Level 1 off the registry and then put these retroactive level 1’s ( ME INCLUDED ) back into a Level 2 saying it’s a non-punitive scheme. Their problem is I’m a true Megans Law retroactive challenger from a Level 2 Prosecutor assessment into a court ruled Level 1 not for public notification. 3 years later Florida put me back into a Level 2 as a non-punitive scheme. This will show Double Jeopardy under the Ex Post Facto Double Jeopardy clause of the US Constitution 3rd Circuit ruling. I got FDLE’s email back an next thing you know I get threatened with arrest the same day if I don’t comply with law enforcement.
But what we’re gonna do about it. What are you gonna do to help them?
This data is very interesting. If Florida publishes this data it should be posted here each month. There are a lot of takeaways from this data. I just want to mention a couple. African Americans make up 15% of Florida’s population but they are 24% of Florida’s registrants. Again, African Americans overly represented in the criminal justice system. 47% moved within the last three years shows the instability of registrants.
Hispanic are not separated that could account for the difference. Plus you can even use that as an argument. 97% are men is it sexist. Grant you women get reduced charges or not prosecuted. But still
Per capita, there are twice as many black men on the registry as there are white men.
https://theappeal.org/black-men-disproportionately-represented-on-sex-offender-registries/
85,224 ?
That would be a medium size city.
85000 is a little more than the population of Melbourne or Miami Beach.
So about sixty percent of the people on Florida’s registry are still in Florida. It seems like a waste of resources for law enforcement. Of the 36% who no longer reside in Florida, of which I am one, I would like to know how many came for a visit versus caught charges in Florida and moved away.
My question is how many of these are from out of state convictions before 10/01/1997.