WARNING: Strong crackdowns are here!
All, a couple of weeks ago we warned that strong crackdowns were taking place across Florida (https://floridaactioncommittee.org/fac-weekly-update-2026-06-23-compliance-checks-and-registration-enforcement-across-florida/)
Today, the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office announced the results of “Operation Silver Spur”, in which 126 registrants were arrested for technical violations such as vehicle reporting, internet identifiers, etc. For context, there are 667 registrants in Osceola County. That means 19% of the registrant population in the county was arrested – that’s nearly 1 in 5! (see: https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/operation-silver-spur-sex-offenders-back-behind-bars)
In Taylor County (who even knew there was a “Taylor County” in Florida) of the 78 registrants, 5 were arrested (6.4%) in another announcement today (https://fox49.tv/news/local/fdle-taylor-county-sheriff-arrest-five-in-3-day-sex-offender-compliance-sweep) and last week in Alachua, operation “Get ‘Em Gator”, got 25 (https://cbs12.com/news/local/operation-get-em-gator-nets-25-arrests-for-sex-offender-registry-violations-in-florida-fdles-missing-persons-and-offender-enforcement-division-jacksonville-regional-operations-center-gainesville-field-office-partnered-alachua-county-sheriffs-office).
We know some of these arrests, if not most, are for petty things, like an account you didn’t know you had to register or one that’s been dormant forever and you forgot about. Barely any are for new crimes (outside of registration violations). Just know this is taking place and make sure your family has the contact information to a defense attorney handy. There definitely appears to be a state-wide initiative to lock up as many registrants as possible, so please be vigilant!
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No one knows what an “internet identifier” is because FDLE will not tell us even though we’ve asked, and many county sheriff’s offices are not following the legal definitions or the Federal court order which upheld the very requirement to report “internet identifiers” in the first place as constitutional ONLY UNDER specific conditions, which the state made a “solemn declaration” under oath to follow.
I guess “solemn declarations” under oath don’t go that far these days. I therefore strongly urge FAC to return to Federal court to seek statewide enforcement of the order in Delgado v. Swearingen, which everyone can read for themselves at https://floridaactioncommittee.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/II-Case-Order.pdf
Operation Silver Spurs got our son because his dad failed to inform either our autistic son or my self that the state sent an auto renewal tag last year with a new number. Had our son known about it he would most definitely reported it as he does with everything else. He is meticulous with details and reporting which I attend with him.
Our autistic son NEVER drives my husband’s vehicle and I rarely drive it. You can bet another fight ensued with my husband over yet another of his communication fails. Our son did NOTHING wrong. In fact, this entire situation is tragically and horrifically unreasonable, unconstitutional and evil that our corrupted government can do this to people only because there will always be ignorant hateful people cheering for the lions to tear apart those they judge and condemn. Humanity has a significant amount of people who have yet to evolve.
Operation Silver Spurs and the puppet corrupt media…our daughter saw this on “the news” last night and erupted into tears…she desperately wishes the public could hear the true stories:
https://www.wftv.com/news/more-than-100-registered-sex-offenders-arrested-osceola-county-sheriff-says/11020709-f0db-41f7-95af-7a238e69bb8c/
Was your son arrested under this sting or similar and is diagnosed an the spectrum? I have my son on the spectrum too. But if hes a registrant would this help further the disability side of things how knowingly should come into play.