New Federal Bill RE: Expungement
There is a new bill in Congress HR 61 – Fair Chance for Youth Act of 2017 the purpose being “To provide for the expungement and sealing of youth criminal records, and for other purposes.”
However, if the offense is a sex offense, that youth would not be eligible for expungement and sealing of youth criminal record.
Once again we have a fine example of doing something positive…..EXCEPT for sex offenders. It’s like, we even try to fight?
We fight because we win when we do. Are you unaware of our lawsuits and the results?
I believe MJ was referring to “we” as meaning the SO population. It is VERY discouraging on a daily basis to even be alive. It feels like living an empty shell of a life, not a real one.
Without the Florida Action Committee, I personally would feel there is no hope. So believe me, the work of those involved does NOT go unnoticed.
Yes, that’s what I was referring to. Thanks JV. You said it right. It’s hard even to just live day to day. But I’m grateful for the lawsuits that have and are being filed and the ones we are winning. I heard there was a lawsuit against the residency restrictions.
I appreciate all you have done. I ask can we do something about the Craigslist stings here in FL?
Alvin – we covered CL Stings extensively a year or so ago, when Noah Pransky did his piece. We can revisit it.
I hate to say it Alvin but not much will probably be done. There is literally millions of dollars being funneled to the county sheriffs offices of FL to create task forces for internet crimes against children and to “increase prosecutions” in this area in order for them to get the money. Until that grant money is cut off, the stings will continue I’m afraid. Here is the link to the US Code of laws that validates these stings: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/chapter-154/subchapter-I
I also found this website that shows how much money each task force received in 2015. I’m sure it’s even more in 2016. But the North Florida Task Force received over $355,000 to run their scam stings!! Ridiculous. Wonder how many law enforcement officials are living high off the hog with that money?
This is why most of the SO’s I know, including myself, are depressed at the very least, and contemplate the purpose of living almost daily. What’s the point? They don’t want us to stay but they won’t let us go….it doesn’t make sense.
So murder is OK and can be expunged but not a sex offense? neither crime is to be ignored but gee whiz….
People never give up, but instinctually fight whenever fearful; however when hope disapates one tends to give up. Maybe that is the intent with all the stringent laws and ordinances within our country, specifically the State of Florida. Government, society and churches punishing one for a lifetime, and never giving a change for forgiveness. It is a strange world we live in when hatred toward any fellow man comes real and vengeful by hysteria from media and lawmakers.
“Worse than fear is the loss of hope…”
But we must fight like in Theodore Roosevelt’s speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910:
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
Sorry didn’t post it: https://external.ojp.usdoj.gov/selector/title?solicitationTitle=OJJDP%20FY%2015%20Internet%20Crimes%20Against%20Children%20Task%20Force%20Invited&po=OJJDP