Friend with VPN also got blocked

Most times I respond to ‘these reporters’ and normally get a very positive response; most have NO idea about the impact of SORNA and the collateral consequences and most email back with other questions; I respond with websites and other information as we do here
-some actually have friends who’s kids are on the Hit List; they never Knew why ‘Johnny’ never comes to a family BBQ….who knew?!?!?
-they now do

There is no way I would let them in my house to check my home unless they had a warrant to do so. Remember, the registry is a civil tool not a criminal punishing tool according to the courts

Serves no purpose but false comfort. Besides while Florida doesn’t have a tier system per se, it does differentiate between offender and predator.

These scammers must have a script. I knew that the phone calls were fake the moment they asked for money. The sheriff’s office, especially VCSO will show up unannounced with a news crew in tow. Chitwood likes the publicity.

@mbgodof war

I spoke last night to one of my friends who is an ex FBI agent. He said that almost everyone’s information is out there and many employee’s of companies illegally sell customer info on the side. He further stated that 90% of people’s Social Security numbers are on those lists, along with your home and cell phone #’s, your address, often a list of your passwords, where you were born, and even some of your security questions.
Then someone buys the info and then find vulnerable people such as those on the registry, elderly etc, people who are easy targets. Then they come up with a scam using a person who knows what he/she is doing and sounds legit and professional. Even if they only have a 1% chance of success, they have won. And like many on here have said (Including me) most of the time law enforcement tells us “There is nothing we can do”.

Then that’s not normal. It’s not normal to be on a sex offender registry as a predator. The registry protects. I don’t care if you don’t think it does and say the same thing 935626474838108345 times a day about it. It’s there for a reason. It serves a purpose.

I haven’t received a scam letter. I’ve received maybe three phone calls: one used a sheriff’s office number (not mine), claimed that I should’ve received a letter telling me that I needed to come in to update my DNA profile. I told him that I’d recently updated my registry stuff and was told nothing about that. He threatened arrest, but I called his bluff after I confirmed my hunch with the real sheriff’s office. A second one spoke to my dad and got his bluff called. The last one started to use something similar as the first, but I paused, laughed, and told him that I wasn’t putting up with his “bullsh**.” He started to say something, but I’d hung up; he called back, but I sent it to voicemail.
…No idea where he’s from, how he got my phone number (my state’s SOR doesn’t require us to provide a phone number nor does it share that information), or if he ever got caught. I mean: he probably tried scamming elders and college kids, too, so he’s a genuine piece of s**t.
….My only hope is: someone traced him, found him, beat the ever living f*** out of him, drug out of the house, beat him unconscious, and there he lay in the hot a** sun or cold hard ground for a couple hours; and just when he thought that his day couldn’t get worse, law enforcement arrives at his house with an arrest warrant and think he’s too intoxicated when he rambles about someone beating him. …Ah, I smile imagining that.

People do make mistakes. People suffer from mental illness.

@CherokeeJack

Agreed, I saw a disturbing video the other day about a man waiting in line behind a mother and her child. The man got close the child (I’d say about 5yrs old) without warning or any provocation; he picked him up and slammed him on the ground. This cracked the child’s skull he ended up on a coma. Nearly killing him.

The man faced battery on a minor and had his sentenced reduced because he is “mentally unstable”. No mention of putting that man on the registry.

What is one to infer from this? Nearly murdering a child cracking his skull and landing him in the hospital with a coma is not worthy of being on the registry, but public urination needs to be punished in perpetuity for the rest of your life. *smh