Is de-listing sex offenders even possible? Lawsuit claims it is
News About Florida Sex Offender Registry
Maybe we should call it a war between sex offender advocates?
Strange lawsuit filed in a local federal court: A Texas-based service that claims to help sexual offenders get off the state registry that limits where they can live and work is suing a Boynton Beach nonprofit that wants to loosen registry rules.
“I haven’t seen the lawsuit yet and I’ve not been served, so I don’t know,” said Gail Colletta, founder of the Florida Action Committee, defendant in the court action filed last week.
Florida Sex Offender Advocate Sued by Texas company
In February, Florida Action Committee’s website warned: “We have been informed that a company out of Texas called CLEARMYCASE.COM has been soliciting individuals on the Florida [sex offender] Registry claiming they might be able to help them ‘deregister’ and charging a $100 “consultation fee. Please do not fall for this scam.”
“We are not [a scam],” says owner John Bordelon.
The company charges between $4,500 and $9,800 for its services if they are successful in getting a sex offender off the registry, says Bordelon says.
“But we refuse more than 60 percent of the business we could get,” he said. “Very few individuals qualify to be taken off the list, and we only accept to help those who do.”
In some cases, Bordelon says, it takes 15 to 25 years post-conviction for sex offenders to become eligible.
While it might be difficult, “it’s not impossible” to be de-registered, Bordelon said.
FAC attorney Ron Kleiner called the lawsuit “baseless” and “frivolous” and accused Bordelon’s company of giving false hope to people branded sex offenders.
“I defy them from showing us one single person they got de-listed,” Kleiner said.
Also, a few questions pop-up for me. Why on Earth would the state of Florida give these folks registration and certification (Secretary of State of Florida listed on the CMC website) when a simple Google search shows that there are questions about the company. Also, on the CMC website it says, “What we DON”T DO: -WE DO NOT GIVE LEGAL ADVICE! -WE DO NOT REPRESENT YOU IN COURT! -WE DO NOT ACT AS YOUR ATTORNEY IN LAW!” Well, then exactly WHAT is someone paying them for? What do they do? File papers? A person can certainly do that themselves. Also, I would be willing to bet that the above disclaimer statements were added recently because of the lawsuit so they could say they do not promise certain things. I hope a FL RSO still has a copy of the flyer and I hope it says otherwise.
It also says on the website that they have “No negative information with the Better Business Bureau” true – but that is because they are not accredited with the BBB and there IS negative associated info on them found by the BBB.
https://www.bbb.org/houston/business-reviews/legal-information-services/clearmycase-com-in-houston-tx-90041778
Here are some reviews – notice with the exception of one (and who knows the outcome of that one) all of the positive reviews are by employees.
https://www.bizapedia.com/tx/clearmycasecom-llc.html
Found this info about the case but can’t read it without paying (at least on this site)
https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/22693195/ClearMyCase,_LLC_v_Florida_Action_Committee,_Inc#
Another thing that really ticks me off about this is that this frivolous lawsuit takes away time and resources from FAC that could be better spent!
Karen – any corporation can register to do business in Florida.
There is a copy of their flier linked from the post.
Agree that it’s a nuisance and it takes resources from more productive work we could be doing.
Interestingly… ClearMyCase.com only registered to do business in Florida a little over a month ago: http://search.sunbiz.org/Inquiry/CorporationSearch/ConvertTiffToPDF?storagePath=COR%5C2017%5C0831%5C02500782.Tif&documentNumber=M17000007498
Hmmm… these posts and their solicitation of business in this State pre-date that.