Did you know? – Changing Drivers Licenses for TEMPORARY Address
Florida Sex Offender Laws
By now we all know (hopefully) that when visiting Florida, or staying at a temporary location for five (5) or more days, a sex offender is required to register where they are staying as a “temporary address”. But did you know that in addition to going to the local sheriff and registering, you are also required to go to the DMV and get a new driver’s license/ID?
Who would have thought, right?
It was just brought to our attention that even registering a temporary address triggers the requirement that you go down to the DMV drivers license office also.
Florida Statutes 943.0435 states:
(4)(a) Each time a sexual offender’s driver’s license or identification card is subject to renewal, and, without regard to the status of the offender’s driver’s license or identification card, within 48 hours after any change in the offender’s permanent, temporary, or transient residence or change in the offender’s name by reason of marriage or other legal process, the offender shall report in person to a driver’s license office, and shall be subject to the requirements specified in subsection (3).
So say you live in another state and plan to take a family trip to Florida for winter break, plan to spend half a day at the sheriff’s office to register and another half day at the driver’s license office getting your license or ID card. Say you live in North Florida and plan on visiting your parents in Boca Raton for 5 days, you’ll need to BOTH go to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office to register your temporary location AND go to the DHSMV to change your driver’s license, even though you have a Florida license with the designation on it!
I live in Marion county FL, and I work in South Carolina for 7 months. I’ve been doing this for 5 years.
The middle of April I get called into work in South Carolina. I go to the Sheriff and tell them , they give me my ” travel papers” and I then report to the Sheriff in South Carolina.
I don’t have to get a new Drivers license or ID, I just go to work like a normal person would. When the work season is finished I go to the South Carolina Sheriff’s Office and fill out a ” change of address” form and I can leave for Florida that same day.
I don’t go directly to my ” Home Permanent Address”, I go to Jacksonville. Where I then have to go to the Sheriff’s Office there and register a ” Temporary address” there in Jacksonville.
I work there for around 10 days and have to go back to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office and let them know that I will be going to Gainesville to work.
Only this year was different . When I first went to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office I was told that if I’m going to be in Jacksonville for 10 days that Jacksonville’s temporary address is now my permanent Address and my permanent Address in Marion county is now my Temporary address,and I need to go and have it changed on my driver’s license. I said, I’ve never had to do this before, and I’ve been doing this for 5 years. She accused me of playing a game with her, and told me she can play this game better than I can.
So, what else could I do…I went and got my license changed…at $30.00 and some change.
I go to Gainesville Sheriff’s Office and tell the Officer my temporary address, and I was told to go to Tax Collector and add my temporary address with them and I did so with no troubles.
Here is where I get a call from the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office to ask me when he could come by an do an address confirmation check. I tell him it’s not my ” Home/Permanent ” address, and that it’s the Marion county address.
He tells me I need to get it changed because they will put out a warrant for me if I don’t. So, I go to Marion county Tax Collector and pay the money to have a new Drivers license issued. I call the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office and tell them it’s done. Awhile later I get at txt saying it’s good now.
I’ve read where I can get a State Identification . Can I have a State Identification and a Drivers license?
I would report the officer as an unregistered lawyer as they were giving you legal advice. They are law enforcement, not lawyers. They have a politically vested interest in harming you. At this point, the actions of a cop can cause you harm.
When i traveled from Nebraska to California for a short visit, I was told that I would need to check into a local registration office as soon as I got to California. So under the advise of law enforcement (More of a demand, actually), I found myself checking-in to California for a temporary visit. The registering officer told me they could only mark me down as “moved into state” and would not register me otherwise. As a result, Nebraska declared me as “absconding” and I faced the very real threat of a 5 year prison sentence if I ever got caught in the state again during the duration of statute of limitations which as far as I could tell was 3 years, 5 years max.
The officers in both states conspired to cause me harm. This is why I am now ready to bring charges against any officer who gives me legal advice, also reporting them to the State Bar for practicing law without a law license.
wait just a minute..are you telling me that if I go on a family vacation to the beach for 6 days, I have to change my driver’s license from my state of texas to florida??? I’m so confused.
you can get a Florida ID card instead of a drivers license.
You just need to have an identification with the designation stamped on it.
Thank you for your prompt reply. I have been very upset after learning this stuff about the license. So just to clarify, I can get an i.d. card without affecting my license for the state I live in?
yes