FAC Letter to Broward Lawmakers
Below is a letter sent by FAC to Broward County Lawmakers concerning the lack of compliant available housing in the county. Please feel free to share this information.
FAC – Letter to Broward Lawmakers 072120201
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This is a nice letter but there is no legal threat. If we’ve learned anything its that all the statistics, persuasion, and reason in the world mean nothing. If these people aren’t directly threatened, they will wipe their a55 with it and throw it away.
This should also be forwarded to DeSantis, as it does effect more than just Broward County
Please forward
Great letter! The only point I would have emphasized more is the financial drain on resources as how the restrictions currently stand. Maybe just another word or two stating, “fiscal responsibility “! Oh how the Republicans emphasize how fiscal responsible they are!
i just have to say. This letter is a dud. To suggest in it “for registration to effective, you need to know where they live”. Registration is not effective which you weakly try and make that point. Why not point them to parts of the tentative draft 5 of the new MPC law for guidelines. Or maybe the new US sentencing commission that shows non contact sex offenders have a 4.3% rate of recidivism. And God help you registrants who live in any part of FL. I live in CA. a completely normal life with a single call around my birthday. We have none of those insane laws you have in FL. Why in the hell would you live in such a place.
Ivan
I also had issue with saying “For a registry to be effective”. Why are we even justifying there being a registry at all? I didn’t want to speak up but glad you did because I was thinking by saying that, we are saying some sort of registry is in fact “Ok” which it is not.
And don’t mean to throw anyone under the bus but especially for those of us who had no registry even existing when we were arrested.
There are people who were arrested long after me who were able to plea a lesser sentence based on the registry. Myself and many others did not get that luxury to plea bargain because there just was not registry to fight over. In fact I did not even learn of the idea until I was almost ready to be released.
For this Audience and this purpose, the selling point is public safety, not abolition. We are currently trying to get more than 700 of us off the streets in Miami-Dade and Broward.
As to all who complain, I respect your opinions but I don’t recall seeing you at the encampments or showing up to the commissioner meetings.
FAC
I appreciate what the organization is doing for registrants and their families in Broward and Miami-Dade counties regarding this letter. As of now it’s important to get registrants off the streets and into homes they can call their own.
If I still lived in Florida I would be right along trying to help. We might not agree all the time and I’m sure opinions are welcomed as far as how to handle the craziness in Florida’s laws.
FAC
I apologize if my comment was taking as not appreciating all you and the staff do. I just cringe when I see someone as important as an FAC official or Narsol or anyone helping with the cause, stating that any form of registry is ok.
But I understand what you are saying, baby steps. But we having been taking baby steps since 1997 and many of us get frustrated. What is the saying “Don’t shoot the messenger”? Hope my misfire didn’t hit you.
Please, by all means, if you feel that this letter is a dud, create your own, submit it to them, and post a copy of it here. We will gladly review the differences between this “Dud” letter and your “Majestic” one. And, I will do you one better. Once you submit your letter, I will go to the next Broward County Commissioners meeting and personally defend it. I have faced many Goliaths and am more then prepared to vocally help them see their circumstances more clearly.
Although a wonderful letter, well written and powerful, it is sad that we even have to deal with these types of situations. The so-called Non punitive registry is responsible for suicides, people (on the registry) being attacked just for being on the “List”. And recently the numbers are increasing of folks on the registry being murdered.
And now more and more homelessness.
And I agree, if the homeless on the registry have no place to go, many will give up and get arrested. However I think that is the city’s plan anyway. My hope is some eyes will be opened. My fear is one secretary will read the letter and file it away somewhere in the archives.
I have an idea. If legislatures want to keep harassing registrants and excluding them from decent housing, how about they exclude them from paying income taxes?
Seems a fair exchange to me.
Disgusted
Their argument will be “Look at all the money you are saving from not having to pay property taxes”. Besides, as long as we are paying them fines, fees, taxes etc. they have no issue doing business with us. Otherwise many wouldn’t care if a bus load of us drove off the edge of the Grand canyon.
Those now seated in state office in Florida should be put on notice…I finally got people to help remove them from office! Stay tuned.