FAC in the News: On Ohio “John Registry”
Not everyone supports johns registries, and a variety of groups say prostitution and human trafficking are very different crimes and should not be confused. They say prostitution is consensual and voluntary, and human trafficking is not.
Most people arrested in prostitution operations are lonely men who went to a massage parlor or hired an escort from an online site, says the Florida Action Committee, a nonprofit that “advocates for sex offense laws based on empirical evidence and best practices instead of fear and myth.”
The prostitutes in these exchanges were very willing participants, and a johns registry will make it hard for the people on the list to maintain jobs, which will only compound the shame and difficulty their families are already experiencing, the group said.
Florida’s database for johns, the first of its kind in the nation, will become a bloated, ineffective mess, much like the sex offender registry, the action committee said.
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Great idea!! I love it!! Blame the & shame them! Make it so they can’t get a job or rent an apartment, etc. – the same “not punishments” that all of us on the Registry suffer. The more registries the better! Because after everyone has suffered the results of something they’ve done and then being brutally broadcast all over the internet as a result, then eventually we’ll have enough public outrage to get rid of ALL registries.
Putting a John- the hooker on the sex offender registry is insane!
whats next a guy put on the sex offender registry for having a blow up doll in his possession
** This information would be removed from the database after five years if individuals commit no subsequent offenses.**
And why doesn’t the same idea apply to those on the SOR?
** Current law makes it fairly easy for people caught buying sex to keep that information hidden from friends, family and employers**
Yeah, because the employer (your boss) isn’t human and would never do something like this.
Dayton police might have had less time to focus on prostitution activities because they had their hands full last year after a mass shooting, the fatal shooting of a police detective and other high-profile incidents.*
In other words: Issues more important than sex. Imagine that!
** This information would be removed from the database after five years if individuals commit no subsequent offenses.**
That won’t last. In a few years after several rounds of legislative changes it will be another lifetime registry.
After 5 years not only will names be taken off the registry, but all private websites will remove this information as well. Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg will work together on this project with Sundar Pichai. “Once the Illinois tollway is paid off in 1973, all tolls will be removed and they will become freeways”. “Read my lips. No new taxes!” Some people never learn!
with this list of Johns, the state is creating a black book for prostitutes. guess the state didn’t think of that and as usually florida puts their pants before brains
Give them an inch and they will take a mile! I have no sympathy for people who vote to pass the sex offender registration laws. Little did they realize that in doing so the local, state and federal governments would expand these laws until everyone is on some form of registry.
Exactly what I was thinking!
This is so stupid, just like the sex offender registry.
My gosh, what will they come up with next (I probably shouldn’t ask!)😡
Hi all. I recently had occasion to research this issue and was able to determine that, under federal law (SORNA), transportation of another in interstate commerce for the purpose of prostitution does not require registration (under SORNA) if the alleged “victim” is an adult, and there was no “coercion” by the accused person, and the accused person did not exercise “custodial authority” over the victim at the time the offense was committed. What you describe is the creation of a requirement wholly under state law, that is not required by SORNA. The Floridian action in this matter obviously gives the lie to any contention that registration laws of this sort are intended to “protect” anyone.