Derek Logue featured on FOX 13 Tampa Bay segment
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One more thought – I simply HAD to write to Fox 13 in Tampa. So I sent the following (sorry if it sounds hysterical):
Hello:
I am an ex-sex offender (I haven’t offended since I was arrested over 20 years ago) who is forced to register on the Florida sex offender registry. I am forced to undergo an intrusive interrogation at the local county jail every 3 months. I spent about 10 years in Florida prison.
I am very sorry for my crimes. But, I have paid for them in full; I have completed all of my prison sentence, probation, fines, fees, restitution and court costs. I have rebuilt my life, and I am now a successful business executive. I own multiple rental properties and have a gorgeous home with land in Southwest Florida. I was released in October 2016 homeless with a $100 reloadable Visa card. No friends – no relatives. They had all turned their back on me because of the terrible crimes I committed.
I worked very hard towards my rehabilitation, both during my prison sentence and after. I have known and associate regularly with quite a few ex-sex offenders. We all want to move on with our lives with quiet dignity; we have healed and moved on. We wish our unfortunate victims peace and healing. We cannot change the past, so we choose to move forward.
But we are being systematically legislated back into prison. So many of us are incurring brand new third degree felonies because of clerical issues like forgetting to renew one’s driver license or to timely register a vehicle. Yes! To us, these are third degree felonies!
In my opinion, this type of legislation (the pool ban) is based on a sick, atrocious hatred. It is rabid and venomous!
I feel strongly that this hatred is co-sponsored (fostered) by the federal and state governments of the United States!
This hatred (like most other types of hatred) is based on fear.
In my opinion, we, in the USA, must create a law that outlaws the systematic persecution of any single group. We must somehow stop the hatred!
We must somehow temper the fear of us!
Most ex-sex offenders are just like me – they have rebuilt and moved on from their past.
Ten years after my sentence was fully served, I got a letter in the mail from a Lee County judge informing me that a lawsuit had been decided against me. I was now to be deemed a “sexual predator” instead of a “sexual offender”. This was the first that I had heard of the matter. The suit was filed under the original criminal case number from 2006! I didn’t even receive a court summons so that I could speak on my own behalf! I receive those daily emails from the USPS that show what is going to be delivered that day, and they provided incontrovertible proof that I was never served (as the court claimed) by USPS. Yet, when I hired a lawyer and paid $5000.00 to assert this, the judge simply waved me off without comment. I WAS TRIED IN ABSENTIA in the USA! But because of this rabid hatred, I was denied even my day in court!
We are this nation’s current boogeyman. We are the hated and feared “untouchables”. At the risk of hyperbole: We are the new Jews!
JJJJ – I feel your pain. I was unjustly persecuted by my neighborhood recently, and this is a high income community, at that. You would think better educated people would also have more wisdom and better morals, but that does not appear to be the case.
Your entrepreneurship is valuable anywhere. Given everything against people in FL, it may be that you need to fight this battle from safe ground, rather than ground zero. Truly, the level of persecution in your state has risen to the degree that a modern day exodus may be in order.
What surprises me the most is the speed and severity with which these changes are coming. In my state, which has been historically more balanced on this issue, the laws have been stable for the better part of 20 years. In this past year, however, dozens of bills were proposed, and some advanced to a worrisome degree. We need to watch the signs of the times and pray, and if necessary, take action.
In my opinion, this type of legislation is based on a sick, attrocious hatred. It is rabid and venomous!
This hatred is co-sponsored (fostered) by the federal and state governments of the US!
This hatred (like most other types of hatred) is based on fear.
In my opinion, we, in the USA, must create a law that outlaws the systematic persecution of any group. We must somehow stop the hatred!
We must somehow temper their fear of us!
I sent this as a news tip to Wink News and Guldcoast ABC and NBC in Fort Myers, Florida.
Please everyone share this story with media in your town or city right now!
The sex offender registry isn’t about safety. It’s about job security.
Crime has plummeted since the 90s. So why are police budgets still ballooning?
Simple: when traditional crime dries up, bureaucracies invent new work.
Enter the RSO—the perfect permanent client.
Lifetime registration + residency bans + employment restrictions = endless compliance violations to prosecute. Easy metrics. Easy headlines. Easy grants.
“Monitor 10,000 registrants” looks better on a budget report than “solved 50 robberies.”
The recidivism data doesn’t support the fear. Most don’t reoffend. New sex crimes mostly come from people not on the list.
But try explaining that to voters who’ve been told every registrant is a ticking time bomb.
This isn’t conspiracy. It’s public choice economics. Agencies expand or die. When murder rates fall, you pivot to “predators.” When that well runs dry, you expand the definition.
Statutory cases from decades ago? Still on the list. Low-risk offenders? Same restrictions as high-risk. Non-compliance becomes a new crime to prosecute. Housing restrictions create homelessness, which creates more “contact points” with the system.
Grants flow. Contractors build databases. Monitoring firms sell ankle bracelets. Compliance officers get overtime.
The machine feeds itself.
Targeted, risk-based systems with actual review mechanisms would shrink the racket. That’s why they’ll never happen.
Fear sells. Bureaucracies grow. And the registry keeps expanding—not because it works, but because it pays. plug and play. same formula for media, politician’s, “counselors” ect.
That sheriff is not a psychologist or therapist and not qualified to have any opinion on “temptations”.
He’s also guilty of putting everyone in the exact same category of being dangerous and those who either are on the registry or have family members forced to register know what it’s all really about anyway and it’s most assuredly and definitely not about public safety.
“The object of all despotism is revenue.”
-Thomas Paine
And to say people forced to register should be grateful is one of the biggest most incredible ignorant things I’ve heard yet. I don’t want people like him living in my state and I definitely don’t want them in positions of being able to harass and persecute other people just because he is a hateful, ignorant low vibe.
Honestly, there have been so many stories of hateful judgmental people speaking out harshly against people forced to register and then at some point it’s found out that they are committing their own personal crimes of the same nature.
It’s called projecting. They don’t like themselves for what they do so they want to take it out on everyone else they can. I can’t say for a fact, but there’s a bad feel with this guy. In my spiritually, based opinion, he should not be in his position.
I continue to pray to Karma to take down all of those who have harmed my son, my family, and the tens of thousands of other families in Florida. They are ignorant of the fact that what goes around comes around. So be it.
That sheriff of course is full of chit there is not a lot of places for offenders to live someone from FAC should do a follow up with channel 13 and tell them what reality is. Also, explain to them that there is a difference between a sex offender and a sex predator but the law punishes them both equally for some reason
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