Is Profit Driving Florida’s Sex Offense Registry?
I was arrested by my local police agency and spent 24 days incarcerated, including the six days it took to transport me from Ohio to Florida so I could bond out and mount my defense. But Florida delayed my release in order to force me to register on the public sex offense registry.
I have never lived in the state of Florida, nor have I ever desired to reside in that state. I briefly traveled to Florida in the past to engage in a peaceful demonstration against the primary proponent of residency restriction laws that harm returning citizens and drive up homeless rates in South Florida.
I had also traveled briefly to the state to hand out Christmas care packages to those made homeless by the Miami municipal residency restriction ordinance named after the same proponent I had protested the year before. Given a choice, I would not have spent even a single day in Florida.
But now, due to this false accusation that was recently dropped (through a nolle prosequi), I am currently listed on the state’s public sex offense registry for life.
I decided to look a little deeper.
Non-spoiler alert: It’s not just Florida.
Here is your answer
We cannot get a fair hearing in Florida but the Fla Senate can waste tax payers money voting on making strawberry shortcake the official dessert of Florida? And it passed.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/florida-senate-passes-strawberry-shortcake-bill/ar-AATdC9K?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531
Oh geez is the biggest issue for Floridians what the state dessert should be. What is wrong with your politicians? Well Floriduh gives itself a bad name because people elect these politicians. Florida should just secede and become its own country.
Personally I could careless about the color of her skin, but how she rules and decides cases.
It is more than monetary profit driving the registry. It’s the desire for power and the continuance of that power. Politicians and LEO manipulate the uniformed, ignorant, and just plain stupid amongst us to achieve this.
There appears to be no shortage of the aforementioned in the state of Florida, unfortunately, thus the problem.
That’s why I refer to Floriduh as the “Hold Muh Beer State.” Any stupid thing done somewhere else, Floriduh says “I can top that. Hold muh beer.” Any crazy story becomes more believable if it’s reported as “it happened in Floriduh.” Remember, this is the state where the terms “hanging chad” and “bath salt zombie” were coined.
Well, there’s only so many topics I can cover in 1000 words. The Crime Report gives me more space than most, other places want 700, 500, 250 or even 200 words tops.
Another one of my favorite articles on this topic:
https://theappeal.org/floridas-sex-offender-registry-proves-inescapable/
Jacob
Thank you for the awesome article.
BOOM! Evidence right in the article that the registry is punishment. Read the entire sentence below and wait for it as the last word sets in. (And remember most court state registry is NOT punishment).
“The Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s application for that money, which The Appeal obtained through a public-records request, uses the size of the registry to sell the state as a leader in punitiveness”.
I wonder at what point will the bloated registry numbers impact Florida’s tourism dollars. Come to Florida for the beaches with sand on your feet listening to the waves crash, come see Mickey and company at the Happiest place on earth, and come to Florida where 200k are on our registration.
What will the wizards of smarts in Tallahassee do is the question. I don’t hate the state of Florida; however I’m not fond of the state’s politicians and views. It’s like what are they seriously thinking and what are they smoking.
The registry is, and has been driven my political advancement and money from the word go. Want to get elected run on stricter registry laws(as if they are not bad enough already) Missing a commodity from the for profit prison system(RSO’s) create new laws that even registry law enforcement doesn’t understand and violate all of those who you catch not following those laws, and so on and so on. Behind every law or registry that doesnt make sense follow the money/power