If you are listed on the Florida Sex Offender Registry but no longer living in Florida, we are organizing a lawsuit to challenge your continued placement on the public registry.
The intent of the public notification component of the Sex Offender Registry is to notify the public of “potentially dangerous” people in their communities. People who are no longer in the state do not present a danger to people in the community and therefore serve no purpose on the public registry.
Florida’s registry is diluted with people who moved to another state, were deported, even people do die remain on the public registry! There are people who never lived in Florida but visited here, who are on the list!
If you fall into this category and would like to participate in a lawsuit to remove your name from the Florida Sex Offender Registry, please contact [email protected].
Note: Since the majority of FAC members are still in Florida and would not benefit from this lawsuit, we are not able to use funds from FAC’s legal reserves for this suit. If we can find a group of 10-15 individuals to pool resources, we can make this happen.
I was convicted in NC. Did my probation from 1998 to 2003 in florida. a few years ago I returned to NC, petioned for release from registration. It was granted. however Florida does not accept it. so I move in 2016 to Washhington state which accepts the release. however since moving I am still on Florida registry.
I’m a candidate and reached out to FAC last September. I was referred to Miami attorney Ron Kleiner. He was not so positive about this being able to move forward UNLESS people get involved. We need a group of qualified candidates willing to help fund the cost.
If you are a candidate please reach out so FAC can consolidate your name. Alternatively if you know someone who is a candidate encourage them to get involved.
We need to fight and push back at these draconian laws the FDLE and Florida legislature keep passing, and enforcing.
If this doesn’t apply to you please consider making a donation to FAC to help fund this legal battle.
Blessings
Cant we start a gofundme campaign? everyone else and their mother is for far more dumber things and i think this would be the way to get the money faster than asking RSO’s who have trouble making ends meet to fund it.
I am going to get on that. While it is a hard sell and not a total feel good project like getting braces for a dog or a walker for an old lady, a case can be made when done so from the right angle. I will post a notice here when I have it up and running.
I will also post a link from my site: SexOffenderTruth.com as well!
Dear “no hope”,
Are you a qualified candidate for the case? I “hope” so! That is two of us for sure! The gofundme campaign is one way to collect funds, but don’t’ they assess fees? From what I found out, it could keep almost 8% of each donation. If we send our funds directly to the attorney, or perhaps FAC, it will save us precious funding.
All the best.
The Attorney can hold funds in his firm’s trust account.
GoFundMe is fine for scenarios that have a lot of public sympathy. Ours, unfortunately, is not. The only contributors will be ourselves. Rather than post something publicly where we’ll garner little support and it’ll cost money, the attorney can hold the funds IN TRUST.
Contact [email protected] and we’ll put you in touch.
if worded correctly and it shows that there is a huge injustice being done there are people out there that will give a little to the go fund me page but it has to be worded correctly. Again asking RSO’s most of whom cant pay their bills now to contribute is like asking for a cup of ice in hell. That’s why we are constantly being played with and punished we never have the funds to fight back
we raised the funds for the Intenet Identifier case, we raised the funds for the Ex Post Facto Case, we WILL get there with this one too.
If anyone wants to create a go fund me page, or any lawful method to fund raise for this project – I’m all for it!
If anyone is going to reference FAC, it needs to go for board approval firs.
keeping 8% of something for the attorneys is better than 100% of almost nothing most RSO’s dont have a dime to their name at least a gofundme campaign might reach somepeople outside the RSO community that see’s what an injustice we go through and donate
trying to fund raise here to help
It is disappointing to not only hear that the New York removal for care ones was 20 years after completion of sanctions instead of from date of conviction which I think is hired was originally was but also that they’re screwing around with their classifications with out-of-state registrants . My understanding is that for level one offenders someone else to specifically ask about a person or a specific address but as we know those lovely people in Suffolk County have taken it upon themselves to publish the names of level one offenders. At this point Vermont is about the only state or someone who is 10 years out from end of sanctions could walk right in and not even have to register and less you are classified by Vermont as a predator. I talked to the poor lady who has to run the entire Vermont registry and she told me I would be a level one and even though I was charged with seven different offenses that they would be considered a cluster of fence and only count as one conviction. The new laws in places like Colorado and Oregon that or just coming online or are scheduled to be in effect in the next year or so appear to be of the same type so that’s some good news. I think both of those states exclude level one and possibly level to offenders in some cases from the public registry. But you were still on the registry and there was a situation in Washington state or some crazy Lauren Book wannabe Sued to get access and authority to publish the information about level one offenders which is not permitted under Washington law. It should come as no surprise to any of us that being off the registry it’s always better than being hidden somewhere in it.
This is a VERY important issue to NOT only those who are listed and have moved from the state but also those WHO LIVE THERE.
Just think if this case is favorable and THOUSANDS are removed from the registry. Not only will that be the first major blow to the Florida registry but it will also give a potential out for everyone who had enough of the “sunshine state” and want to move.
You will eventually be able to get OFF the Florida registry because of THIS case…But only if it is funded enough to fight for us!
SO EVERYONE DONATE AND LETS GET THIS THING GOING FOR EVERYONE!
I lived in Florida, moved to NY for 8 months, moved back to Florida and now I’m on both registries. I also have to fill out a yearly form for NY every under the threat of arrest.
Youre on in ny for 20 years from completion of sentence if youre a level 1. Did you advise ny that you moved?
Yes, I informed them but they put me at a level 3 which I qualify for level2. I just had surgery on my lung and missed the hearing and couldn’t fill out their pre hearing form. I meet all that qualifies me as a 2. That was in 2012 and I don’t have the money to appeal but I would win that. I’m not sure if I can file appeal in absentee.
New York is doing the same thing to its registrants!
But are they on the PUBLIC registry?
What about people who visit Florida a few times a year?
Who are your ideal plaintiffs? Someone who permanently left Florida but is still registered there verses someone who registers in Florida intermittently during the year due to travel but who is a resident of another state?
Anyone who appears on the public registry when they are not in the state. If you visit and appear after you have left, you are a candidate.
moving away in a year to VT but that doesn’t help you now. I think this should have been done a while ago. The number on the registrant is what the oppressors use to pass laws and acquire more funds. if the public knew what the actual number was i don’t think there would be so much legislation towards oppressing us.
I agree that this should have been done a while ago, but we were unable to raise funds.
If you are moving away next year, you will be a potential beneficiary of this lawsuit in a year. Would you contribute to it now?
i don’t know the law so i am just spit-balling here hoping someone knows the answer to this. If the opposition gains federal funds off of false statistics of how many RSO’s are in Florida isn’t that fraud? i mean thousands have moved away and i’m sure thousands have passed away still on the Florida registry so if those people are taken off or brought to the attention of the attorney general wouldn’t the people that get money based of those inflated statistics be charged with obtaining federal funds illegally by lying about the statistics??
I think everyone knows why it’s happening. It’s no secret. But that money likely goes into a lot of pockets that enable this to happen.