Always check what the county ordinances state.

Well said. I fully agree.

RM

And a rogue cop who has nothing better to do than arrest us could put us back in prison for simply cutting through a park. The law makers are making sure there are ways to get all of us back on paper, or locked up.

Florida State law (F.S. 856.022) makes it a first-degree misdemeanor for a person forced to register to commit the offense of loitering and prowling (normally a second-degree misdemeanor) within 300 feet of any place where children are congregating. There is no state law that prohibits persons forced to register from being present in a park for a lawful purpose.

However, there are MANY county and municipal ordinances throughout the state that prohibit persons forced to register from being in or near a park, so you absolutely must check your county and municipal ordinances. Here in Miami-Dade County, it is a crime for a person forced to register whose victim was under the age of 16 to merely be present in a county or city park if there are any children in the park at the time, with a maximum punishment of a year in jail.

These are the minefields we are forced to navigate as citizens stripped of many of our fundamental rights.

All these people on here giving you advice could cause you to get arrested. I would contact the school, your attorney, the sheriff’s office/local police department and the Florida department of law enforcement. Every one of them will probably give you a different answer, making it even more scary.
Nothing is worth getting re-arrested. I recently learned that even if I get removed from the registry, that will not change a lot because there will still be pages and pages of places we cannot go as felons and things we cannot do.
I have survived 33 years as a felon by asking my self one question, is it worth it, and if not, don’t do it. And when not sure, don’t do it or if you have to do it, do every bit of research and get names of who you spoke with and maybe if they are willing, something in writing. For example, permission to be at a certain place, like a function, with info stated such as who you spoke with, their name, what they allowed etc.

It was written in the sentencing memorandum by the Judge in my case. My case involved calling an escort service asking for a date with one of the girls pictured on the website. To make a long story short, the girl was a minor working as an escort. My attorney worked out a plea deal for 4 years in prison, but at the sentencing hearing, the judge threw out the deal saying that it was too harsh. At my hearing, one of my witnesses who testified on my behalf was the woman from the Probation and Parole office who wrote my recommendation for the court asking for no jail time, and 5 years of sex offender probation. In his decision, the judge said that he had never seen a case like mine, said that “even though this wasn’t entrapment in the legal sense, it was a form of entrapment. He was set up”. I did 3 months in county, 7 years of SO probation. When the ASA asked about being around minors, he interrupted her and said “no, this case doesn’t require those prohibitions of being around minors, or living near schools. I live less than 1,000 feet from a high school and the sheriff’s office never gave me a problem.

As long as your not loitering. You don’t have any restrictions that I’m aware of. So if you have a valid reason for being there you should be ok. Unless there is some county ordinance I think you should be ok. But id call and ask a lawyer just to be sure. But I take my kids to parks all the time.

Old timer, I’ve looked into this and found no ordinance that prohibits a PFR who is off supervision/probation from going to city parks in Orlando.

My offense was mid 1992 and sentencing was January 1993. I was released after a year and then had 8 years of probation. At this point, I have no supervision of any kind, other than having to register twice a year. I have no problems going to concerts or other such events, but I’ve always wondered about any of my organization’s events that they decide to hold in Orlando parks.