FDLE Recommended Changes to the Registry
Contained in the Criminal Justice Meeting Packet was a one-pager from FDLE with their recommended amendments to the registry. Their suggestions included allowing registration of vehicle changes and addresses online through the Cyber Communication Portal.
SB234 does incorporate the vehicles, but not the addresses. Allowing address changes to be made online makes sense because (1) it would not require a separate trip to the sheriff’s office (sometimes requiring hours of time and taking additional time off work) to notify of a brief trip, and (2) it would afford people the opportunity to report within required time frames when their local police departments are closed (most are closed for periods longer than 48 hours).
A copy of the proposed changes can be found here: FDLE – Talking Points
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They want to make their jobs easier that’s all they care about.
Registries of all kinds are illegal and constitutionally unlawful full stop.
CherokkeeJack:
We need to document any “fees” they charge. Which jurisdictions are charging a fee, for what and how much?
If you have any court cases finding these fees legal, it would be appreciated if you share them.
You would have to ask FAC. Last year on here a few people reported their counties charged a registration fee. I also think I saw FAC type on here that they were ruled constitutionally allowed. Luckily for now anyway, where I go there is no fee to register.
So do you think anyone in the Senate or House is actually going to listen? If we take senator books new build to with logical conclusion or should I say the logical conclusion if someone like Grady Judd interpreting it, sex offenders will essentially have the probation condition of maintaining a driving log imposed on them in a manner of speaking. Of course the difference is every time you have an entry in your driving log, you have to go to the sheriffs department to submit it in person.We know that law-enforcement is doing this for selfish reasons. They won’t be able to keep up with the new workload and if one sex offender goes off the reservation, it’s bad press for days and no excuse will be acceptable.
Meanwhile, LE opposes a federal gun registry because it violates the right to privacy among other things. But it’s ok to violate our privacy rights with a sex offender registry. The hypocrisy is overwhelming.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrat-gun-registry-police-concerns
Dear FAC, does this change anything with internet identifiers? I am creating a business from home that will require website(s) for sales and contact information. But I’m not sure about the status of the internet identifier case and if I need to register my website at all or when I buy a site or when it goes live. Please help. Thanks
This has no impact on internet identifiers.
Thanks for the response. So did we win the internet identifier case? Do I still need to register a business website(s)?
We won. We don’t unless you use it for direct person to person non-business communications.
Business internet identifiers are not subject to registration. Not unless one also uses them for social communication.
Dear FAC and Jacob, thank you very much for answering my questions (and all other efforts).
Somebody had better tell that to the Pinellas County sheriffs office. When did this decision come down? Have we had any interpretation on using the email for your business website to get on a social media site for the purpose of selling your goods or services? Thinking of Instagram In particular. If you had a separate business email address would you have to register that address? It’s kind of critical that we know ahead of time instead of having to find out as a result of being arrested and prosecuted and winning in court. Remember that even an arrest is a loss for a sex offender under current Florida law.
FAC, I recall you dealt with a similar issue in Duval, where they were unfamiliar with internet registration protocol (resulting from your win).
Duval registration office had a sign listing too many identifiers that needed to be registered, someone sent you a photo of that sign, and you sent Duval a letter. I could have imagined this, though.
Yes, that did happen.
So anyone in Pinellas who has evidence that they’re requiring registration of non-social internet identifiers, might want to forward that evidence to FAC’s Legal Committee.
As a result of FAC’s win in the Internet Identifier Challenge in 2016, registrants are to provide internet identifiers used for direct user-to-user social communication. Not identifiers that are strictly business, not postings on news sites, etc.
I don’t mean to speak for FAC on their own platform, but that’s what I’m noticing in this discussion topic. FAC is free to correct me or clarify.
So an Instagram for business only is ok to be used without registering it under FACs win in the internet identifiers case? Where can I find that case? Can FAC provide more guidance on this please?
https://floridaactioncommittee.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/II-Case-Order.pdf
The following is a direct quote from an 11th Circuit opinion: “. A username need not be registered based only on a communication whose primary purpose is to facilitate a commercial transaction involving goods or services, or a communication over a website whose primary purpose is the dissemination of news, or a communication with a governmental entity. And a username need not be registered based only on its use on a website or application that does not allow users to create web pages or profiles as described in the statute. For the most part, the summary set out in the preceding paragraph derives from the plain language of the statute.” Delgado v. Swearngen, 375 F.Supp.3d 1251 (11th Cir. 2018).”