If you get a chance, read this article in the International Business Times and think about Florida’s requirement to register vehicles of people who live with registrants… it’ll scare the hell out of you.
The article begins by describing a 2013 operation in California nicknamed “Operation Find Ickey”, where a police officer, armed with a license plate scanner, parked himself near a Disney on Ice show and tried to catch “people who shouldn’t be there.” The article describes how the use of license plate scanners has grown exponentially in the years since and that should scare Florida registrants with families.
In 2014, the Florida legislature passed a law requiring that registered citizens not only register their own vehicles, but also register the vehicles of others who live in their household or who visit them for 5 or more days.
Imagine your wife takes your children to go see Disney on Ice and gets stopped and interrogated in front of your 6 and 8 year olds. Or, your elderly mother gets pulled over and harassed simply because she lets you live with her instead of on the streets. It’s one thing for ourselves to be subjected to this scrutiny but something else to expose our family, who has done nothing wrong, to this type of surveillance and profiling.
Where are the lawsuits? Somebody should be looking into this, there is something fundamentally wrong with what is going on in Florida… Starting with the implementation of SORNA…
We are bringing them as quickly as we can raise funds to.
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While the real recorded criminals are free men.
We pose many hypothetical questions and comments to these stories. Many of which I think fail at the fact that we have committed a crime of some sort. However, I DO think they help to spur constructive debate. I think it is difficult at times to compare our situations to many of our hypothetical arguments due to this fact.
That being said, this requirement surprises me that it gets such little attention. Additionally surprising that it tends to get no legal attention.
Putting RC’s vehicle information on the SO registry? As ineffective as we know this to be in reducing crime it may fall under the “do the crime, do the time” adage. But a law abiding citizen who has no criminal record and has committed no crime to have their personal information on the SO registry? Now that, my friends, seems to be a simple constitutional issue. No?
Would resources be better spent on fighting registry requirements of non-offenders?