8 hit with registration violations in Polk County.
A headline in Today’s, Daily Ridge reads, “8 Polk County sexual predators and offenders arrested for failure to comply with Florida law”. We had to read the story to check out what horrible new sex crimes these guys were committing and, as expected, these were not new sex offenses, but technical registration violations.
Worst, of the eight arrests, five (yes, 5 of the 8) were individuals who lived at the same address who were all charged with failing to report a vehicle.
So five people, all living at the same address, all getting charged with failing to register a vehicle… We had to look into it.
With 5 registrants all living at the same address (and it not being a high-rise condominium), it was unlikely that they purchased a fleet of vehicles and collectively decided to evade registration. It sure smelled like someone new moved in who had a vehicle and they all got popped for failing to register a new guy’s car.
According to this press release from the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, one of the guys only moved there last week!
We always wanted to challenge the “vehicles owned” change to the registration requirement. Not only for situations where roommates change vehicles beyond the control of the registrant (yet triggering a registrant’s registration requirement), but also because individuals whose cars don’t belong to a sex offender should not have their cars on the sex offender registry.
This mass arrest provides an opportunity to bring this challenge in the context of a criminal charge (where the accused have the right to be appointed an attorney).
If anyone knows or has access to these individuals, please invite them to contact us.
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The “other vehicle” requirement essentially causes the innocent owner of said vehicle to essentially be registered and forced to comply by threats to other people in the home. That’s not punishment for associating with registered offenders. Not one little bit, I tell you. LOL
It would be great if all of these comments were also posted at the source article as well as here so people would see them. I posted at the source.
This is crazy, The Sherriff in Polk county will not rest until he has everyone who has our designation behind bars. I stayed in Polk county once for work and was there on Monday – Friday in a hotel and the police busted my chops not only to register, but they interrogated me about my intentions and why I was in Polk County. They made me move to a hotel outside of the county limits which caused me to lose my job because the hotel i had to move to was twice what my boss was paying for the other hotel. When you register in Polk county it’s like being placed in jail. I was stuck in there for over 3 hours and I was finished with my registration. When I asked officers to let me out they said no, and made me wait. I was held against my will and was only there to register. They treat everyone like they are garbage and the police are God’s gift to the world. They were very nasty, and I feel bad for what these people are going through. Polk County is probably one of the worst counties to live in beside Dade county. It’s amazing that we all have a voice but cant get this state to let us have our right to vote back so we can do something, but unfortunately, we have all been branded by Florida and society as monsters, but I keep hoping and praying that one day it may be easier for us, because bad things happen to good people, not all of us are the same. We have all paid our debt to society but yet we are still paying with our lives.
I am not an attorney nor do I pretend to be one on TV, but I would encourage everyone to download and read the following, and then consult with a licensed attorney if and when needed:
http://www.youhavetheright.com/home/A%20Treatise%20On%20Arrests%20And%20False%20Imprisonment.pdf
Also read:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_misconduct
Tpak. Excellent information. If I had that information 25 yrs ago . Or had known an attorney that was smart enough to know it I would not be on the SOR today and going through this £§¥~!! Today. Thanks for the tip. I wonder what it would cost to get Charles A. Wiseman to write up a well documented petition that would get people’s attention so we could get 100,000 signatures.That the minimum it would take to get somebody’s attention to get something started.
Just a side note in reference to the pdf document: arrest does not always means having handcuffs placed on your, and false imprisonment does not always mean being detained in a jail cell or detective’s office. There are MANY other instances where you may have legal grounds to sue for unlawful arrest and false imprisonment. Know your rights and NEVER talk to police!
https://www.google.com/search?q=never+talk+to+police&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b
Also having to register including vehicles and following all the other hundreds of rules required for RSO is definitely punishment. If it wasn’t you couldn’t be charged with a crime for non compliance,very simple. When is someone going to be able to run it through the system contesting it?
I don’t understand how they can justify these arrests? I live in a duplex, there are several homes on the same property with the same owner. Now according to what this arrest indicates I should as a person living on the same property have access to all of their vehicles. Wow what a stupid way of looking at it, I have access to MY vehicle and only mine. No I’m not an offender, just a person with some common sense. I see how maybe they could arrest the owner of the vehicle and only him. Come on Judd you think by wasting tax payer money that you will advance further in politics.
The fact of the matter “How many sex crimes are committed with the use of the Offender’s car? or How many times did a Registrant use their car in the commission of a sex crime? or A gettaway car? and “Would a violent repeat Offender use their own registered car in the commission of a sex crime? or A boat? Citizen’s car’s are already registered by the DMV. The government knows about our vehicles as well as Tag Agencies and Insurers. Cops check the tags first, not the Sorna records. And having a Driver’s License Identifier does nothing other that cause discrimination cases to happen. You tell me, what good does having your vehicles registered other than more added on punishment? JEV
JEV, you’ve got it. Just something else to make bureaucrats think they are contributing to society’s well-being. “Sound and fury, signifying nothing”.
To all who have a comment about why a non registered person should have to register their car the sane applies to a spouse and child who can’t celebrate Halloween because of a registered person. Me and my wife are thinking of challenging that.
Ren A Gade,
So the cops come over to your house and give you the **feel good fuzzy orange pumpkin** to put on your door to say “no candy given here”. What happens if you go to your neighbors house, sit in a chair, and watch the parents down the street give out candy?
You need to look at your conviction date to see what you are “Grandfathered into”. Most stuff the FDLE “TRIES” to make you do, you are not required to do. I believe the cut off/grandfather date is 2007. If you were adjudicated before that date, they cant enforce laws that came AFTER that date.
Just like this—–
I have a friend who is a convicted felon. He was found to be in possession of a handgun. At the first hearing, his attorney brought up the 2nd Amendment which you are allowed to “keep & bear arms”…
NEVER said that a felon cant posses a firearm.
The DA dropped all charges and they gave back his firearm.
The police look for loopholes to hem us up on. WE have to be twice as vigilant to find the loopholes that we, as RSO’s can live our lives in peace; without harassment from cops.
P.S. the pumpkin on the door?? I throw it in the garbage right in front of the cops and tell them to get of my PRIVATE PROPERTY !! (they leave)