The Florida Action Committee has sent two letters to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) within the past couple of months, asking them to notify us of recent changes to the registration requirements being imposed on registered citizens.
The text of the letters can be found here and here.
To date the FDLE has not replied.
This past legislative session, the State passed a series of laws that impact registration and impose additional requirements on registrants. The laws were passed without any notice to the registrants. One round has gone into effect in July and the second round will come into effect in three weeks, yet the FDLE refuses to provide us a breakdown of these new requirements.
Apparently, registrants are not only supposed to interpret new State Statutes, but prophetically know that they have been passed!
The irony is that this past week the FDLE and Leon County Sheriffs department arrested 13 individuals for registration violations. The news report quotes the FDLE as stating, “There’s some individuals who don’t want to comply ever with anything that includes registering as a sex offender or sexual predator and then there are those who don’t understand the law as clearly as they need to,” said Chad Hoffman with FDLE’s Enforcement and Investigative Support Unit.
Perhaps we should pass some new laws targeting Chad Hoffman from the FDLE and not tell him about them… then go out and arrest him for violating these laws so we can get our names in the paper!
I would not trust anything Chad Hoffman says. He had an innocent man (Darrel Harvey) arrested after conducting a child sting on a adult web, and then pursued a sexual relationship with the mans wife before, during and after his conviction. Its shameful and Mr. Hoffman puts a Black eye on the trustworthiness of FDLE
First of all you have to understand legislation in theory is easy to pass. Just put something on a piece of paper and we all say, hey that’s a great idea. Vote on it and it passes. No impact analysis is done, we just don’t have time for those types of things. The new law just sounded like a good idea. Implementation on the other hand hard to do. Why you may ask. Because nobody did any impact analysis. How does this affect the people who will be governed by it? More importantly what about the agencies that have to enforce it? What if those agencies don’t know yet how they’re going to enforce the new law or what the exact legal procedures are in all situations. Well they certainly can’t inform people of what they don’t know. Let’s, for the sake of argument, say they do know. How do you inform everyone, the new law effects.
Just something to ponder.
Donavon Lace
http://www.registrationx.net
It amazes me how the “powers that be” always seem to think the general population has some type of clairvoyance concerning theses things. so rather that set a little time and money on educating of these new implementation.. Their perspective is incarcerate them for 200 times the cost of simple education, “” there should be a law” !!!
The law makers think they are heroes by introducing bills that will condemn registered citizens for the rest of their lives. It would be a sterling lawmaker to take on this subject …..and protect registered citizens…the truth is they all know someone who has porn on their computer.