URGENT CALL TO ACTION: Florida wants to reduce registration period to 3 days!
Senator Lauren Book (senate) and representative Fitzenhagen (House) have sponsored legislation that, among other things, would reduce the number of days that constitutes a permanent or temporary residence to THREE (3) days, instead of the current FIVE (5) days.
Five days is bad enough, but three days would mean no more long weekends away with the family without having to take the extra day off to go IN PERSON to the DMV to change your address (and then again, to change it back)!
HB 1301: Sexual Offenders and Predators
SB 1226: Sentencing for Sexual Offenders and Sexual Predators
Sexual Offenders and Predators; Reduces aggregate & consecutive number of days used to determine residency for purposes of sexual predator or sexual offender registration; provides for mandatory minimum sentence of community control with electronic monitoring for certain offenses.
It will change the current 5 days to 3 days. Require in person notification!
It’s impossible for registrants to comply. This is just another tactic of the legislature to set mine fields for registrants who want to travel or for visitors to our state.
Once on the Florida Registry … even if you are not on a public registry in their home state … they will be now, courtesy of Florida.
For those who DO live here and periodically travel, this requirement is unrealistic. You would have to make TWO trips to the DMV to change your address (and then change it back). For a three-day trip, you’d have to spend two days waiting at the DMV.
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https://openstates.org/find_your_legislator/
Tallahassee Office
202 Senate Office Building
404 South Monroe Street
Tallahassee, FL 32399-1100
(850) 487-5032
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Tallahassee Office
202 Senate Office Building
404 South Monroe Street
Tallahassee, FL 32399-1100
(850) 487-5032
ZORAIDA hung up on me basically……first I said the mean spirited bill to change from 5 – 3 days will just increase the incidents made in haste error that will get registrants into trouble….then..reminded her..that
my teen age son went into her local office and asked if she was there and any summer work. The answer was no to both. Then Ms. Book came from cubicle area behind front desk. So I just reminded Zoraida how Ms. Book lied to my son. …boom. hung up.
Have to tell everyone this, My son from New York just arrived in Miami on Saturday morning to be there for a cruise that left Sunday. His last text to me before boarding was, “I don’t think we would consider a vacation to Miami. Its so weird, and people aren’t very nice.” This coming from a person that I’ve told little about Miami/Dade and in such a short time he noticed something was amiss . Haven’t been there in a long time myself, but am sure the void has grown and that part of out state has really festered into a big boil of puss just waiting to bust and infect the rest of the state! I don”t know about anyone else but its easy for me to visualize how this could really be viewed. These latest Bills in great part have come from them “down there” just like a cesspool overflowing in your yard.
I am confused: I really wanted to go to the Gaternationals in Gainesville in March. Well I had originally thought that I could go there for the weekend which would start on Thursday and end on Sunday. That would be 4 days and three nights.
We would be staying at the speedway for the event. What would be the address to report and would it be a violation to do this?
This is all very upsetting. I guess we will just have to drive back and forth each day to stay in compliance.
the bill has not passed yet
I think it’s insane that someone can lie about their age and the person has to be designated as an sex offender for the rest of their lives and no sex assault actually happened. Adolf Hitler once said what such luck rulers had that men don’t think. And he also said if you tell a lie long enough people of believe it why is it that this evil dictator is being proven right by Florida legislators.