PRESS RELEASE Regarding SB 1230 and HB 1235
Florida Legislators are trying to make changes to statutes 775.21 and 943.0435, some of which would make the statutes more punitive.
Besides a campaign with hundreds of people contacting legislators to oppose certain parts of the bill, a press release has been sent out. You can read the press release here.
The ultimate goal and prime directive here is to get all of us put in or put back into the prison system, probation or house arrest. Some in the past have even proposed retroactively making all S.O’s wear ankle bracelets. Even though that did not move forward, it seems things are going downhill fast with all the so called “Not punitive” ideas that lead to laws that are almost impossible to comply with.
Well done. I am in the process of getting my email written so it packs the punch but is concise and without emotion.
1. Do we have register our local bank, grocery store, gym, relatives house for a visit etc.
2. If we are not establishing a temporary residence ie stay for 3 days or more do we now have to still register that we are going? If so that is infringing on our right to travel.
3. Is it 48 business hours? As we know not all offices are open 5 days a week and or on weekends. So if a vehicle is bought on a Friday and the office is not open until Tuesday what then? According to some offices its with in 48 hours of when they are open. Ie report on Tuesday.
4. I have said it before none of this will get better until God moves. So while i think we should be advocates, send letters, emails, speak p etc Until God moves on the heart and mind of the Judges the State will continue to have in essence “A blank Check”
Great summary Gail!!
Thank YOU!!!
We are forwarding this press release to other concerned parties now.
Thank you, Douglas. We use a company that sends out our press releases to a large number of media groups. Having our members also send them out helps us.
Jack,
Usually you are a little more hopful but I understand I too have been doing this for a long time almost 26 years. Honestly, if I didnt have to work I would have like 3 identifiers and 0 emails. My only email is my work one. No social media. As I mentioned above all we can do is pray and believe that one day one person will do the right thing.
Absolutely ridiculous. So if a family member has a serious medical condition and may die, they have to notify the sheriffs office and wait 48 hours to leave to hopefully make it to their family members bedside.
I’m so sick of hearing these potential laws keeping people from moving on. I get it, we messed up. Many of us have paid our debt to society, let us live our lives.
I’ve lived in Ohio for 15 years after leaving Florida. I was charged and convicted here in Ohio 22 years ago. No longer required to register in my home state where I was convicted, but whenever the police pull me over, they give me a hard time because the state of Florida won’t take me off the registry or even update any information. All I hear from the officer is that I am a sex offender from Florida. That throws up flags to the point that I have been taken into custody because I “have not updated my address with the state of Ohio.” Granted, it has gotten cleared up, but still, Florida has literally destroyed my livelihood, family members and friends don’t want to hear my side of this screwed up story and I can’t get a good job for more than a short amount of time because other people like to be a detective and then tell the boss.
I pulled up today the actual 1235 statute and read it over it some and need to print it to read thoroughly. But, I was very surprised to read that it has already been required (not new) that each county have a secure online reporting system in place for registrants to report some specific things online, one of which was vehicle stuff, online and not in person. I know my husband here in Duval county has not been provided this secure online reporting system, as they are required by this statute to do. Duval requires everything in person.
Just an interesting find.
Lindy
Same with me, I have never, ever been told by my reporting location that we can report anything online. I remember back in the day when we had to call in to make a reservation to report, then they made it walk in which is much easier because if you missed your appointment, you were considered an absconder.
Sucks for people who work 8 to 5 since they are not open to register on weekends. Technically you do not have 30 days to register, you have 22 due to 4 weekends.
It’s like a corn maze trying to figure out the state and county rules. And then other counties and other states corn mazes to figure out if you visit them.
And then you never get out of the maze there is no exit.
Hi, Lindy
The FDLE Cyber Communication System has been operational for about 15 years give or take. Currently, email addresses, internet identifiers, institutions of higher education attended/employed at, telephone numbers, and places of employment/occupation can be registered using the system. Permanent, temporary, and transient residences cannot be registered online. Under the current version of the law, neither can “vehicles owned” (which actually has an expansive meaning that includes a lot more than just vehicles a person owns). However, one of the proposed changes in the bills (probably the only good one) would allow “vehicles owned” to be registered online using the FDLE system — and that’s being done more for the convenience of sheriff’s offices than registrants.
Thank you for this information. Greatly appreciated.
Has this press release been emailed to all the Senators and House Representatives?
Has it been forwarded to all Majors?
I know that our new Democratic Mayor here in Jacksonville appointed at New transition commission and a JREC commission to be established. These Calls to action and press releases should be sent to them. This impacts counties and departments like our JREC across the state. Some counties may not care but others might speak up for us. If they understood the real life implications this ex post facto laws they make up actually impact real people in real life and their friends, families, even law enforcement.
This may already be happening so, I am just asking. If it’s not it should be and would be hard to add to a email group.
Stay strong everyone and please don’t give in or give up.
FAC is an all-volunteer organization. We encourage members such as Lindy to respectfully share the press release with all relevant policymakers and media outlets.
I under stand its volunteer. And i dont mind helping some. I was suggesting that he quick fix would be for Whom ever already emails these notices n calls to action, could easily just add these mayor’s to their already existing email group and then they go out to them every time with no additional work. So the that they go out asap as well, since there is usually very short notice for us receiving these action notices to even call and email government officials to vote NO.
I would happily research and obtain the names and email addresses of all Florida county mayor’s to provide to the person who sends these emails out. Then they could just copy paste them to their email group list. Just let me know who sends the emails out for me to give the info to.
Thanks
You can send the list of emails to media@floridaactioncommittee.org
Ok thanks. I will finish the list and email it.
We are not the only state where we are losing more rights.
Tennessee just stated over 500,000 felons will not be able to vote.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/tennessee-blocks-500-000-people-from-voting-in-the-upcoming-presidential-election/ss-BB1hfAUE
Florida’s Voice mistakenly reports that FAC ‘favored’ bill, which unanimously passed House committee (comments open beneath the article):
https://flvoicenews.com/rep-baker-bill-details-reporting-requirements-for-sexual-predators/
I think some might get the wrong idea. She spoke for the chance to have offenders be able to report online instead of in person but some I do not think she is for some of the other changes the article posted that lead to an arrest. No other group of people can be arrested and sent to prison for a so called “Non punishment”, punishment, other than those on the registry.
The registry is not supposed to be punitive, but you just cannot say that without laughing because going to jail is punishment. A regulatory statue is not supposed to be an arrestable offense. Someone changed the dictionary I guess?
States that an individual in FAC favored the bill. Question is who?
I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired. When will this legislative BS end. My theme song now is the “U.S.” is not the world and with Trump in office, a offender himself, no telling what may happen. I am literally fritenned for what is to come i need an exit plan. Fear, frustration and lack of hope seem to dominate my emotions. And it doesn’t help when we turn on the local news and another one is caught in the SO net, which is another nail in the coffin for everyone, is there something in the water here?🤬
According to the Florida Sex Offender Registration Monitoring Triennial Review 2021, there were 78,000 offenders on the register with 30,000 residing in Florida. If the interpretation cited in a number of comments are correct, that an offender would need to register as a temporary address any location visited three times in a calendar year (coffee shop, next door neighbor house, grocery store, etc), for any portion of a day, and the average number of locations visited by each registrant is 10, that would amount to 300,000 temporary addresses added to the registration per year – average of 20 equals 600.000. This volume seems to make this interpretation very difficult to implement and enforce. I relayed this message and opposition to the amendments to the house and senate committees along with how unreasonable the definition of a day being “any part of a calendar day” truly is.
They got around your thinking by not counting the first day by leaving that part of the statute the same. So you can go to a place as many times as you want and not have to register if you only stay the first day or one day. .
As I understand this change it shortens your temporary stay from 3 overnight stays to two overnight stays. If you go to a hotel on Friday and check in in at 3PM and stay Saturday, and Sunday now Monday would now count as your third day and you would have to register the travel at least 48 hours ahead of time because Monday at midnight plus one second would now be counted as a full day. You would have to check out before midnight on Sunday not to have to register.
The old system was counted in 24 hour periods and you could stay Sunday and check out before 3PM and not need to report.
It shortens our place of residence by on day.
Not a lawyer so not advice but that is the way it reads to me.
Not good.
They are taking away 24 hours from the 48 and creating a kind of probation community control which is supervised by law enforcement instead of the dept of corrections.
The only argument the government can make is to say that “they have a compelling reason to protect the public from sex offenders. Therefore, their constitutional rights must be reduced.”
And they can get away with it unless it is taken to court like filing injunction to stop the law when it’s supposed to start, etc.
How about a class action lawsuit ? That could be interesting !
It’s all about control. We are just the test subjects, soon they will roll it out for everyone.