Are you kidding me?!?!?!
I’m posting early in the morning because this one kept me awake for most of the night.
Senate Bill 932 sponsored by Senator Wright and it’s companion bill House Bill 141 sponsored by Representative Leek, are making their way through the Florida legislature, The Bills would amend the Florida divorce statute to provide that:
“The court may not grant a parent time-sharing with a minor child if the parent is required to register as a sexual offender under s. 943.0435 or a sexual predator under s. 775.21″ unless the court makes a “specific finding in writing that the registrant poses no significant risk of harm to the child and that time-sharing is in the best interest of the child.”
WHAT THE F…?!?!?!
So if you have a sexual offense in your past, no matter what it was, no matter if it was years or decades before you get married and start a family, and you happen to get divorced, even for reasons completely unrelated to the offense, the court may not grant you time sharing (custody) with your own children unless the court specifically finds in writing you present no significant risk of harm to the child?
So if you get divorced you automatically lose your children and it’s up to a judge whether you can see them again and the burden on the judge is for them, not a qualified practitioner in risk assessments, but the judge, to make a specific written finding that you present no significant risk of harm to the child?
We have seen plenty of cases where a judge has a bias against someone on the registry or found that even a “negligible risk” or “less than 1 percent risk” is not “no risk” or “zero risk”, even though “zero risk” does not exist on the risk assessment instruments.
Anyone who is on the registry and has minor children, whether presently married or divorced, should be very concerned. If this horrible bill passes it will change the dynamic of families of registrants immediately.
Below are the links to the bills:
https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/932
https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/141
Look for a CALL TO ACTION this coming week.
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Another thing overlooked:
“The court may not grant a parent time-sharing with a minor child if the parent is required to register as a sexual offender under s. 943.0435 or a sexual predator under s. 775.21″ unless the court makes a “specific finding in writing that the registrant poses no significant risk of harm to the child and that time-sharing is in the best interest of the child.”
Judges very seldom write their own opinions and rulings these days. 99% of the time, they just scratch their name on whatever is in front of them without reading anything but the signature block.
Well another 23 people arrested today in brevard county for vehicles and internet names and not being able to verify address this is bad is something about to change or what people need guidance face this is ridiculous isn’t it something you can do they’re going to arrest every offender on the registry before the month is out good Lord they even got people for not reporting employment why are they doing this!!!
Dear Tired,
Where are you getting your information about all these arrests in Brevard County? I haven’t seen it on local news (ie Wesh 2, Click Orlando and WFTV 9). Seems if this is happening, Brevard Sheriff Wayne Ivey would make a press conference. But I can’t find any. Thanks.
Space coast daily mugshots look at last week’s mugshots and read the charges and count the people.Better wake up and read!
Amazed at your ability to get instantaneous data on Brevard registrant mass arrests. Not sure how you do it, but thank you for keeping tabs on them.
Why are they doing this? Because it’s popular. It helps motivate voters to re-elect the sheriff and council members to approve sheriffs’ budgets. And, judging from reports of USMS involvement, it can be done partly with Federal funds.
Unfortunately https://spacecoastdaily.com publishes Brevard’s arrests online, including the mugshot and the charge. I don’t want to share the direct links because I don’t want to give it SEO promotion, but if you look at the last few days, you’ll see A LOT of FTRs (mostly vehicle registrations). I didn’t bother counting but there were a lot, too many to be a random coincidence.
Thanks for clarification, FAC. I am a bit surprised that our local news stations, especially WFTV, haven’t run stories on Sheriff Ivey’s efforts to jail citizens forced to register. I’ve never heard of the site you mentioned.
Jacob
Just think, with these new arrests, they may have just done away with any chance these people had of ever getting off the registry. A lot of times an arrest after you were put on the registry can screw you when it was your time to try and get off.
The pressure we are putting on the law makers is obviously pissing them off so they are being devious and doing what ever they can to make our lives Hell. AND they could care less about how it affects our families.
Well, if they are an “offender” as you called them, then they need to be arrested. Language matters.
Most people who are listed on the Hit Lists are not offenders. They are People Forced to Register. That’s all.
They are Registered and signed up to be harassed by big government. Big government obviously has far too many resources.
All good Americans need to focus on taking resources from law enforcement. Let’s make them broke and dysfunctional.
The Dems are promoting criminal justice reform and prison reform but the darn ‘reptilian brain’ will get in the way again unless we step up to change hearts and minds.
These people really need to get their asses kicked. However, since we can’t do that, make sure we make PHONE CALLS!!
Thanks AJ. There’s actually a lot of cases there that I haven’t read yet. Unfortunately, it appears this site is no longer active. All of their links and contact info are dead links. It would be nice to see someone pick up this effort again.
Jacob:
I’m not aware of any case where the U.S. Supreme Court or a federal Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an irrebuttable presumption. If you know of a case, let me know. There may be a stray state court case that upheld an irrebuttable presumption but the overwhelming number of cases have found irrebuttable presumptions unconstitutional.
Doe v Smith was decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2003. This may be the case you are alluding to but Does v Smith didn’t address irrebuttable presumptions. I don’t know which case you are referring to.
Detroit
Yes all these court cases are good to keep in mind if you have pockets as deep as the government. If you don’t court cases mean nothing and your screwed.
BUT
I Damn sure bet you still have to make those child support payments?