Lake County Registrants Under the Microscope
The Orlando Sentinel is reporting that Law enforcement authorities in Lake County are examining sex-offender registries for possible suspects. Only it’s not a sex crime they are using the list for, but vandalism and arson.
Earlier this week, someone set fire to 10 vehicles parked outside a medical center in Lake County. It is assumed that the same person spray painted a message on the side of the wall. Police believe the incident is related to another graffiti incident last month where an anti-sex offender-registry message was scrawled. Now people required to register in Lake county are suspects in the police investigation.
It goes without saying that FAC does not condone graffiti/vandalism/arson, so even though we are very critical of the registry, especially the fact that it’s a one-size-fits-all shaming tool that lists everyone forever regardless of present dangerousness, there are better ways to voice opposition.
Our hope is that the registrants in Lake County are not all harassed during this investigation and that this isolated incident does not spur a series of bills in the forthcoming legislative session preventing persons required to register from buying lighters or paint.
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Can’t help but laugh at all the drama surrounding this incident. The cops are running around trying to catch one of the “usual suspects”. The “usual suspects” are sitting around wringing their hands worried about a knock on the door. Since I’m not on probation or parole, if there is a knock on my door I would answer it only to experience the satisfaction of telling someone to “F” off. If all of you want to sit around stressing about what the cops think or what they might do then have at it, you will be giving them exactly what they want. Know you rights, know the law that applies to you so you understand what the cops can and cannot do, then stand up for yourself. If you don’t take a stand then you will forever live in fear and will be paralyzed to live the life you have and that is the real effect of the registry.
Bravo! You are absolutely correct. We must never forget that we are citizens of the United States and thus have certain rights, especially against false accusations. I truly hope that the events in Lake County were not the acts of a sex offender as such actions do nothing positive for the cause. I can understand how this year after year ‘foot dragging’ can cause some to lose hope and feel such acts are the only alternatives. Unfortunately they are a step backwards in all the work forward. We must be patient and know that justice will one day prevail.
Hmmmm…… Lets see. Fire set and cars vandalized outside of a Medical Complex. Police are looking at FDLE Flyers????
What about the CAMERAS set all around the complex, leading up to the complex, witnesses…. Did the “perp” take the cans and gallon containers with him after he did the damage?? Fingerprints; DNA, description??
NOPE< just straight to the FDLE files to “put the bad man in jail”. JUST HAS TO BE A SEX OFFENDER.
I think that Lake County is actually the “Keystone Cops”….. chasing shadows, not the real perps.
And I will bet that the person is some “3 tooth vigilante” that the cops know well and is NOT a sex offender.
I pray for the sex offenders in Lake County for the undue wrath they are about to incur.
As others have stated. It all looks very suspicious. Who would commit a crime then write you ID all over a wall with paint telling who did it. I don’t know anyone that stupid. They used the word assumed which generally describes the one doing it by its first three letters of the word. Appears to me it’s just someone trying to throw the police off track, looks like it worked.
Who is to say that it actually was an SO. It could be a person that isnt registered that hates SO ‘s, which as we all know there is plenty. This tactic will make things alot worse for all of us and I agree it could possibly cause the government to make us all wear GPS no matter the lvl of offense.i dont put anything past the government anymore to do anything they want to do legally or illegally.
Even the dumbest criminal wouldn’t leave a trail like the person who torched the cars did. That is why it cannot be a RSO based on what was left the police could easily find him/her. It has to be someone looking to jam an RSO up with BS charges. I have said it before and ill say it again could be the police themselves. maybe they felt the individual didn’t get a strong enough sentence