Could your real estate agent be a sex offender?
Really Palm Beach Daily News? Is your shaming article necessary?
Wouldn’t you want someone convicted of an offense in the past to be doing better now? To have a profession, earn a license, become a productive member of their community? All your article does is seek to bring down a handful of people who are doing nothing other than trying to do their job and support their families.
Also, you COMPLETELY misapplied the recidivism statistics. The actual re-offense rates for people on the registry is in the single-digit percentage. Why not write a story called “could your real estate agent be a drug dealer” or “could your real estate agent be an armed robber” because both those crimes have much higher recidivism rates?
If anyone wants to share their thoughts with the journalist, please do: Wendy Rhodes. 561-820-3864. [email protected]
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It would be interesting to run criminal background checks in all realtors in the Palm Beach area and see how many have criminal backgrounds. Armed with that data would Ms. Rhodes write a similar article?
Or anyone affiliated with the Palm Beach Daily News.
Loved your reply FAC!!!!
I sent a nice long email to this lady asking why not look into how hard it is for people living life on the registry everyday and how people on the registry will and are paying the price for Jeffery Epstein and many other sex crimes can’t believe this lady from the hoa has to complain and take her story that far… this mans crimes was in 2007 12 years ago has he harmed anyone??? Reoffended?? Doubt it she thought he was weird or off well if your living on a public registry to be constantly judge with no privacy you might be weird or off a tad bit that’s not a crime I’m not on the registry can’t imagine how hard it would be to be on one but I will stand up and voice my opinion to anyone as often as possible
Or a released murderer. So many are being released but with no registry. So an 18 year old who had sex with their 17 year old girl/boy friend is more dangerous than a murderer. Js
I sent Wendy the following email. It really bugged me that every inch of life has to be scrutinized for all. Read: Thank you Gail. Shaming is a strategy to keep people under control it does nothing to change behaviors. No matter how hard you try to abide by the rules of law; you are not exempt from becoming listed. There are individuals in the registry who never ever touched a person. Many have never had a sexual experience at the time they are labeled. In just a moment when your guard is down you may find yourself clicking a link that is not what you thought and may put you in prison for no less than 5 years and registered for life. Better educate yourself. You or any of your loved ones could be next. Think open and wide.
I will definitely have to give a response to Wendy Rhodes. This is where we need to do much education. The ‘fake news’ needs to quit being part of the problem and become part of the solution.
I passed the State Contractors Exam only to be denied activation due to not being able to have my civil rights restored. Instead I provide service and low volume product I use investors on up to the limit Im allowed to build by law with no license. There isn’t a doubt in my mind my net worth would be 10-20 times what it is now. After the recession the banks quit loaning money to anyone who doesnt have a contractor which is like 4 percent higher rates and at times risky as they could pull out at any time leaving you unfunded midway through …is pretty easy to get a GC to pull the permit for fees but its a bummer giving some hack 2-5k and sketchy when it comes to someone in the middle of you and customers money who could fire me and take them for a ride or take control of the draws so I do what I can sleep well at night doing
When I applied for my D.O.T license, I passed the D.O.T test with 100%. So good of a score, I was accused of cheating so they gave me a 2nd one and watched me closely. The second time I also got 100%. They then told me because of my charges, I would have to pay for the 2nd test. I told the supervisor to hold that thought while I call my lawyer and channel news as well as my representative in Tallahassee. 5 minutes later I had my license. NONE of these kinds of things would happen if we were not on the registry. Even though a background check reveals the charges, the registry is what is stirring the pot for vigilantism across all aspects of our lives. And 99 % of the vigilantism is not physical but doing things to us like making our job applications disappear. The mail man throwing away our mail ( happens to me constantly ) and more. Registries make every day neighbors and residents turn into mobs for a cause that 90% of the time won’t affect them. I have heard of people being bused into other counties they do not even live in to protest an offender moving into a community. Really? Don’t they have some socks to knit, some whales to save, a homeless shelter to volunteer at or something more productive? My great grandmother was treated this way when they tried to send her to a reservation and stop her from marrying my great grandfather, a German immigrant . She cut and dyed her hair in the 1800’s and pretended to be another race just to keep from losing her freedom. My point is, wait until they have Registrant reservations or concentration camps we are all sent to.
I agree with you Cherokee Jack but this is where all of us need to write to our legislators as much as we can the only way to make a difference is everyone together and not giving up I’m not on the registry my son is he gets out of prison in November and I live 400 feet from a school so he can’t live with our family so we are looking into selling our home my son was sent a chat attachment online containing child porn it saved in his phone he didn’t know even as he was being questioned so it’s hard for everyone in these positions it’s unfair and you never really tend to understand or know how bad it is or how easily a person can be put on the registry until it happens to you or someone close to you people are quick to judge not to understand or have compassion but all we can do is write to our legislators newspapers and as many as we can until change happens I know that’s what I’ll be doing until they’re tired of hearing from me.
There is also an unbalance of justice. A person is convicted of raping 20 kids who has a lot of money, a great lawyer and a judge who shows mercy gives that person 10 years probation.
Then you have someone like me who had an inexperienced lawyer and a hanging judge and I got 25 years.
I did go back on appeal but was advised to wait until that judge was on rotation. As soon as they were I got a new judge and got a good chunk of my sentence tossed ( albeit after I had already served most of it )