CORONAVIRUS AND REGISTRATION
The purpose of this post is to serve as an advisory for those who are trying to comply with registration obligations during this period. On March 12, 2020, anticipating certain counties would close courthouses, jails and administrative offices where registration is performed, the Florida Action Committee contacted the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to determine what procedures have been implemented to accommodate registration in counties where offices are closed.
While we wait for a reply, check the comments below to see if information about your county has been posted. If not, please call your county registration office to find out whether they are open, whether they anticipate closing, whether they are taking precautions to implement social distancing during this period and what accommodations have been made for registration should their office be closed or closing.
A list of all county registration offices, along with their telephone numbers are published here: https://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/Documents/REREGISTRATIONLOCATIONS.pdf
For any questions, call the FDLE at: 1-888-357-7332 or e-mail [email protected].
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According to Sheriff Wayne Ivey this afternoon, registration will be as usual in Brevard County Florida. I intend to re-register in May as I normally would. Up to this point, registration has been a pleasant enough experience.
Pleasant???
Pleasant?????
Any time several of my constitutional rights are violated, and my human rights under international standards are violated, I DO NOT call that pleasant no matter how well-meaning the officers involved.
The nazis used the excuse that they were “only following orders.”
I am reminded of a character in the Orwell novel “Animal Farm”. The character was a horse named Mollie. She was seen eating sugar from the hand of the humans. In the novel, the humans represented a repressive and brutal regime.
Sorry to sound negative, but please don’t call our oppression PLEASANT!!
Administering the law does not make someone a Nazi. That is NOT what the Nazis are remembered for. And they weren’t pleasant about it.
Can we tone it down people.
Most of what the Nazis did, at least in their own country, was fully supported by the law. Google Nuremberg laws.
As we’ve done in the past we are going to end discussion of the term Nazi. It’s offensive to most of us.
Yes. It is quite an unpleasant subject. So let us continue to bury our heads in the sand.
I agree. Nothing pleasant about it. Any time that big government orders me to be somewhere at the point of a gun, it is not pleasant.
It is an act of war though. And what is also not pleasant is what I have to do to retaliate because of the Registries, just about every day. Nothing pleasant about any of it.
Unless a law enforcement officer denounces Registries 100%, I don’t have to have any concern for them or their families. For anything. Why would anyone expect less?
I suppose that pleasant is as pleasant does. Some events in life are unavoidable so we have to look at them in the most positive light that we can. I look back at where I’ve been and look ahead at where I’m going…and pleasant is the best way to describe my current situation. I know that one day it will come to an end and I will be better off one way or the other. We can get through this bureaucratic challenge by keeping a positive attitude. It’s that positive attitude that will one day free us of the ‘chains’.
Life is what we make of it. My registration process has always been casual and professional. Unpleasant is a Capts Mast
CMC, you got that right!
Jefferson Co is open for normal hours call first but all will be expected to register .
JACKSON County has cancelled registration until April 6 as per Registerer Joyce McKennie . You are to call in to get a date after that for registration at 850 482 9624
PUTNAM COUNTY Sheriffs office is making some changes until the end of the viral emergency: Per Lisa at the registry desk, they are seeing only one registrant at a time by appointment only. You can call 386-329-0821 to set the appt. When you show up at their front door you need to make sure to bring your phone and call the number posted there to get screened before they will let you in. It is otherwise business as usual.
Easily house verification could be done with a wave from the street and in person long could have been done by phone. Fact here in Polk the sheriff that does mine says he has all his done in 3 days so an officer by phone could do their part by phone in 1/8 of the time. Why it’s not done like this and we have to leave our home and actually go into booking with dangerous killers 20 years after sentence is beyond me. Why?
ORANGE COUNTY just did a live news conference and said Sheriff’s office lobby will be closed to the public and only open to employees and sex offender registration