Florida Registrant Jailed for Failure to Report Address Change DIED of Coronavirus
A Broward jail inmate who was being treated for coronavirus has died, underscoring concern over how the pandemic will pose problems for detention facilities across South Florida.
One of the inmates, Alan Pollock, a 64-year-old convicted sex offender, died at Northwest Medical Center in Margate on Tuesday afternoon, according to the Broward Public Defender’s Office, which represented him.
Pollock, who most recently was held at the North Broward jail in Pompano Beach, was jailed last month, accused of violating probation because he changed his address without permission, records show. The Public Defender’s Office had tried to get Pollock out of jail.
UPDATE: He was on probation for a failure to register. His underlying case was from 1998!!!!!
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The US will have many constitutional suits because of this Covid-19 virus.
The federal government severely failed to act in time.
States limiting travel into other states and into/out of the US.
States putting registrants in danger to register and to succumb to visits.
1st amendments rights to religion, guns, etc
many others too.
Guy in my neighborhood 9 arrests!! Just stabbed his fiancé in broad daylight on the street. Why wasn’t he ever jailed for a registration violation? Because his 9 prior crimes never involved a type of sex??
Sounds like you live in Duuuuuuvaaaal!
With the passage of HB 333, more registrants will die in custody for petty violations since there is now no chance of bail for anyone EVER convicted of a “sex offense” if the victim was a minor and the accused an adult. This of course includes all entrapments with adults posing as minors and CP cases. Floriduh continues to be an outlier in continual harsher treatment of registrants.
It doesn’t prevent bail, except on appeal of a sex conviction against a minor.
I stand corrected
I am very sad for Mr. Pollock and his family. This is a reminder to all of us to stay vigilant and follow all the requirements they put on us, at least until the Courts step in and give all registered citizens the freedom we deserve from restrictions and the threat of incarceration.