It may be bloated for that purpose indeed yet Florida is a top 3 State to visit and to move to permanently. They actually thrive on tourism and real estate here. Wouldn’t this bloated stat to scare off people be bad for business ? If people around the world and the country look at those stats ( which I think a majority don’t even care to) Then the Florida population wouldn’t be what it is today. So the registry is not doing what they want it to do and it is a complete waste of everything.

Hi Jv. Will you elaborate re: the options for non-violent 3rd degree adjudication withheld offenders? Are you referring to one or more specific statutes? Thanks.

It isn’t just the money issue that is a concern. Florida media and victim industry advocates like the Books love to use these inflated stats to scare people into thinking Florida is some kind of Predator sanctuary, thus justifying the ever-increasing restrictions. It makes for a good talking point for them because until now, no one has seriously challenged them on that.

You can be sure a certain blonde-haired victim advocate running unopposed for a certain state senate seat uses this stat to promote her personal agenda.

Derek,
This initial BJS report on the National Sex Offender Registry Assistance Program (http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/nsorap98.pdf) stated that one of the criteria for allocations of funds is “the number of sex offenders in the State”.
Florida certainly realized that if they claim more than twice the registrants, they get more than twice the funding.
At minimum, parents and concerned citizens should be questioning why the registry’s effectiveness is diluted by the inclusion of so many people who are no longer in the community.

To be fair, I kept the number at 28,647 just for the sake of arguing that the FTRs and “unknowns” are still living in the land of ‘Duh. A handful of states do register out-of-state offenders, but I don’t know of any states who listed deported, dead, or incarcerated/civilly committed registrants. At any rate, the number of Registered Citizenss by state, according to the NCMEC, are as follows, and adjusted for our revised FL stats:

CA– 112k
TX– 83k
MI– 41.5k
NY– 38k
OH– 29.8k
FL– 28.6k
OR– 27.8k
GA– 26.2k

Now all of a sudden, FL’s RSO population drops them to 6th place, 7th if you use FAC’s number rather than mine. All of a sudden, it seems that the notion that Florida attracts registrants by the truckload is a pile of bovine excrement.

Michigan, New York, and Ohio, and maybe even Oregon, should be upset the Florida just ripped them off when it comes to their precious registry funding.