Sam — My son was also involved in a “sting” – entrapment. He also was on an over 18 chat room – now in prison for 3 years, 5 years probation and the “sex offender registry”. To many stories of this injustice. I, and many others are working hard to make changes.

He, as you – became the victim of our corrupt system.

Wishing you well and know fights are being made to make changes.

Mama K

@Bo

Sadly, most of the World copies the U.S in many aspects and the registry is no exception. Many other countries now have sex offender registries, emulating our grand scheme of outing people on public forums, people who have already done their time and should be able to move on with their lives, instead are victims of hate, punishment, shame and even death.

Sorry. I do not know how to fix things like this without a massive focus by leaders on the injustices. We have no prosecutors or judges, no effective interest groups, legislatures or police chiefs that are willing to rain in overzealous zealots. To those and the public, persons charged in sex offenses are seen as unworthy citizens. This mystic creates stupid fears in the public and sells news by the media. There is no firestorm of outrage. The constitutional issues stand out, but also, ten years feeds the fact that America has the largest prison population in the world, more than China and Russia. What’s with that? Our solution for what used to be handled by community social services, schools, and parents, are now thrown to the justice system, who have the side effect of ruining lives.
And then the federal government pays local departments for after-hours work on sex stings. The registry is an abomination wrongly including minor crimes, and we classify most all sex offenses as felonies instead of many that should be misdemeanors or citations. FAC is one of the few effective groups, but it resides in one of the worst states for draconian measures, so what is up with that?

Judge has not approved anything yet so any recall calls are premature

Thank you for taking appropriate action. I wrote Gov DeSantis a while back about the injustices and draconian rules associated the sex offender management system but got no response. I would like to think there are fair-minded people and leaders out there that can see the cruelty of how FL and others are handling those charged with these offenses. Thanks.

Yes – we can do anything we want to. Any individual reading this can forward our post to any news outlet they like. As far as FAC doing it, we are actively and desperately looking for help in the Media Committee. We need volunteers to step up if we want to implement all the ideas we would like to.