Executive Order Expands Civil Commitment — Impacts Sex Offenders
President Trump’s July 24, 2025 Executive Order titled “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets” includes a critical and concerning development for the registrant community: it expands the federal government’s use of civil commitment, explicitly targeting “sexually dangerous” individuals.
The order directs the Department of Justice to aggressively use 18 U.S.C. § 4248, a law allowing for the indefinite civil commitment of people deemed “sexually dangerous,” even after they’ve completed their prison sentence. It instructs the Attorney General and Bureau of Prisons to identify additional candidates for commitment and streamline the process of obtaining court orders to keep them confined. The expansion could also influence state-level practices, especially in jurisdictions that already have or are considering similar civil commitment laws.
Civil commitment has long been criticized for detaining people indefinitely based on perceived future risk, not current criminal conduct. Many individuals subject to these proceedings are near release or already served their full sentence. This order may mean continued incarceration in psychiatric facilities under the guise of treatment. The civil commitment process often lack due process and offers minimal transparency or opportunity for release.
Section 3 of the order frames homelessness as a public safety crisis, authorizing sweeps and detentions under the guise of removing “disorder” from public spaces. This is deeply troubling for people on the registry, who often become homeless due to residency restrictions that bar them from most housing. Now, simply being unhoused could be interpreted as evidence of instability or dangerousness, which are grounds used to justify civil commitment.
FAC is very concerned about this Executive Order. In particular it’s impact on the thousands of individuals in Florida who are homeless, simply because residency restrictions and debilitating stigma have created situations of chronic joblessness and housing instability they have no control over. This is a major step backward for justice and civil liberties. It reinforces the false narrative that people on the registry are perpetual threats, ignoring decades of data showing extremely low recidivism rates among people with sex offense convictions — especially as they age.
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🍾 I will be celebrating this with an ice cold bottle of Veuve Clicquot. I know of a predator/pedophile in the area who stalks people and he will be getting in trouble again for doing these things. Even though he thinks he is not doing anything “wrong”. And yes, he does fall under the threat/dangerous category. They should either open a new wing in the gator Alcatraz for predators or just remove the immigrants (they don’t belong there, not criminals). Replace with preds/pedos.
If that person was actually committing a crime they’d already be in jail again, unless everyone in your area is aware of it and just not reporting it, which make them just as complicit.
Annon
I don’t report people, I let Universe to take care of him
Allowing crime to occur with knowledge of it does not make you the hero you think it does, it makes you a criminal as well.
Andre
A wise man once said ” better to be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.”
It’d be ironic if they’re doing to it to get under your skin and have no intention of harming anyone but merely walking about daily in a manner you find bothersome. They’d win then because you are bothered.
Andre
Unless someone is looking in your windows, or running down the street naked, what evidence do you supposedly have for getting this person locked up? Because if you go before a judge and tell that judge you do not like the person because they did creepy things in the past and we don’t want them on our street, you will end up with pie on your face. (Figuratively speaking)
If you called the police and they have not arrested the person, probably you are making things up or overreacting. Being thought of as “They creepy guy down the street” has no legal basis for an arrest.
A lot of my neighbors stare at me as I mow my lawn and they pass by. One guy almost crashed his car trying to see if I was doing something wrong like mowing without clothes on. Good lord man, what do people think they are going to catch us doing? Hiding in the bushes? The boogeyman may exist but only on an extremely small scale.
Cherokee, Well said. That’s why I made my comment to Andre. If there is a “crime” and he is not reporting it wouldn’t he be just as bad as this “creep”? Instead this is most likely mush ado about nothing.
Interesting timing…Alligator Alcatraz has just opened for business. Another concentration camp in America. How many remember that they forced Japanese people into concentration camps in 1942?
Americans placed Japanese Americans in internment camps. Not concentration camps. Certainly not one of this country’s finer moments.
They’re both the same thing.
Semantics on my part, Derrick. The two types of camps are different. The internment camps were never used for extermination.
@We are stars
They also did so to the Jews in Hitlers Germany. Back when we were not having issues traveling to other countries, I knocked out 9 countries before things got ugly. For example missing flights because of extra checks and having to re-book at our own expense.
One of the countries I visited was Germany and I went to one of the concentration camps. It made me cry for those who had to go through that. I cannot compare our situation to them, but we could very easily be sent back to prison, for what? Well, “Just because they can” mentality. Don’t think for a minute they won’t come for us next. I am not going back to prison so if they come for me, I will probably be seeing Jesus sooner than I thought, because they would have to take me out, but not for dinner.
This could mainly apply to tier 3 offenders I’m assuming.
But in florida everyone is put on tier 3 automatically and cant be lowered to tier 1 or 2.
Robert
Not everyone gets the same registration rules. I have to register 4 times a year, but many others only have to register twice a year. Not sure if anyone registers on once a year in Florida.
On the flip side, law enforcement only does two checks on me a year but others state they get random checks (Even off of probation) numerous times a year and sometimes more than once a month.
Seems to be no real rules for law enforcement and they seem to make it up as they go along without FDLE correcting them.
What is there to stop it from applying to all registrants? Florida lacks a true tier system.
Hope you post this but I am not going back to prison, especially if I have done nothing wrong in over 35 years. They would just have to kill me. It is one thing if I was originally sentenced to life in prison, but I was not. I did my time and have not committed another crime in over 12,775 days (35) years. Do we have to live to be 100 for them to realize most of are no longer a threat.
And I tell you what, all those on the outside laughing at us, it won’t be so funny when the administration deports your family, takes away homeowners guns, takes away free speech, takes away our bank accounts and more. Many of these crazy sounding things can and many will happen. They have already deported many U.S citizens and many of them were born in the U.S like the recently deported U.S veteran.
Please someone give me a definition for insanity. I would rather volunteer for a one-way Mars mission than go back to prison.
I agree, the registry is just a tool to test out what they can and cant do before society complains. They testing the waters and will continuing expanding what they do to registrants and will do to other felons and then to society and I cant wait to sit back and laugh at all the people who cheered at what they do to us as then it happens to them.
CherokeeJack
If you want to read insanity, read the fact sheet that accompanies this order. I don’t know how to post it but I sent a copy to FAC to post. Read the fact sheet and you will learn that this executive order applies to EVERY PERSON WHO IS ON THE REGISTRY, NOT JUST HOMELESS REGISTRANTS!!!
For all the money we’re now spending on apprehending and detaining “immigrants,” we could probably provide a decent place to live for every unhoused person in the country. But that would be socialism, and we can’t have that, can we?
Starts with immigrants, moves to registrants forced into homelessness, next will those with mental disabilities, then those of an opposing party to the current majority in power and then who knows. Don’t think for one second that many of those that think it can’t happen to them won’t be on the list eventually.