Thank you for this excellent clarification RayO! I’m having a hard time keeping up with all the new laws and am feeling confused and anxious about pretty much everything. I recently lost a good client because of the registry and I can no longer visit many of my favorite places because of the new laws. I feel overwhelmed and confused after over 29 years of these constant attacks and setbacks.

BTW, the revised statute in question here has finally been updated on the Internet. It’s easier to read to see that (4)(c)2. still excludes us (pre Oct 2004) from the new residency rule.

https://leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=0700-0799/0775/Sections/0775.215.html

@None Ya – I am in the same situation as you, it looks like. I don’t see anywhere in the revised statutes that adds restrictions on where I can live now or in the future, since my offense date was before October 2004. I’m no lawyer, but I don’t think you should be worrying (yet).

Nbody is questioning the validity of your argument. Trouble, the vast majority of the population are NIMBY knee-jerkers that don’t recognize the distinction between SVP and SO. It’s not their fault because the media had spoon-fed them that garbage for decades and they eat it up like a buffet So naturally the “they’re all the same”ignoramuses are going to think that scary “dumping” buzz-word is going to mean to them: “I already living close ‘one of them’ and this will make them all move out.” These lawmakers will never, ever admit what they’re doing is laying down manure before plowing the field first.

They embace denialism and gimmicks as policy.

From nearly every angle, the situation degrades into a profound state of limbo:

Trapped Inside Your Own Body: Experiencing severe aphasia and paralysis after a stroke means being completely aware (or partially aware) but utterly unable to express pain, fear, basic needs, or preferences.

No One in Your Corner: Having zero family or friends means there is no personal advocate checking to see if you are comfortable, clean, or receiving adequate physical therapy. You are entirely at the mercy of shift workers and overworked state employees.

Treated as an Unwanted Liability: The sex offender label creates an immediate systemic rejection. Private nursing homes will flatly decline admission, leaving you stranded in a sterile hospital room for months—often referred to in medical systems as an “unfunded, un-placeable discharge problem.”

Public Ward Status: When a state guardian takes over, decisions about where you live, what medical care you receive, and how you spend the rest of your life are reduced to state-funded caseload management, strictly limited by whichever facility has an open Medicaid bed willing to take on the legal liability.

Total Stripping of Autonomy: You are simultaneously stripped of physical capability, legal agency, social connection, and public sympathy.

It is one of the starkest examples of falling into a complete institutional dead zone where medical fragility meets the absolute bottom of social isolation.

Oh, it is there, but those who went through US Constitution 101 in college or law school have forgotten it either intentionally or pushed it outta their heads because actually referring to it as intended seems to be a lost science when needed most. When the people have allowed so many different opinions on it be used as basis of rulings instead of what is the actual intent as designed, it muddies the water of it to picking and choosing what works best for the case at hand.

Would love to see a US Constitution as applied vs as intended class to see where it has been deviated from over the last 250 years.

A couple of my fellow commenters below said something to the effect of, “they just want us to die.” Please. The article isn’t even about you! No one in power is seeking your death. “They” are looking to advance their careers by solving problems, or at least appearing to. You can’t blame them, or their constituents, for assuming that a newly-released SVP is in fact a sexually violent predator.

We are bringing suit in Putnam because the county is applying a concentration restriction atop an extreme SORR and applying both to all registrants in the county. That is a far cry from what is happening in California.

Thanks for permitting me to play the contrarian here.

That’s exactly what their end game is for all registrants, that is, unless one of them gets caught up in the system. Then, they go above and beyond to minimize, rationalize, make exceptions, cover up or otherwise allow their own to skate or move on without any lifelong consequences.