Comments on: FAC Requests Clarification from FDLE on Vehicle Registration

By: Elisabeth

Elisabeth — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 03:29:34 +0000

My son is on the offender registry in Fl and has a lot of nonrunning, nontagged project cars around, plus he fixes other people’s cars. He has a girlfriend that lives in her own house but once lived with him, whom he added to his insurance. He has continued to keep her vehicles on his insurance since she moved out, as she is broke and trying to get through college, although her vehicles are in her name. Her truck broke down, and he added her replacement truck to his insurance to fix for her while she used his truck to get around. Once he got the truck fixed, she registered and tagged it, and he went and took her old truck off his registration and put her new truck on. However, 4 months later on, when her replacement truck was back sitting in his yard on blocks for repairs, along with a lot of customers’ cars, they swooped in and arrested him because they said that her truck was not showing up on his registry, even though he had switched out her vehicles on the registry 4 months before. They show that they dropped her first truck, but do not show that they added her replacement truck on the day he brought in the papers. The clerk, and the supervisor at the registry office, have both consistently told him that he only has to register tagged vehicles legal to go on the road and none of the rest, so even though he took in all the information on the untagged vehicles to register them, they said none of that is needed. He is now facing 5 years for information that they gave him wrong about ‘owned vehicles’ and their clerical error. Is there any defense when the actual register office does not register the information you bring in, saying that it does not have to be registered or when they make a mistake, as it is not willful omissions?

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 18:06:55 +0000

I don’t have a Drivers license does this law still apply?

By: RayO

RayO — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 23:58:00 +0000

In reply to CherokeeJack. It's too bad that more roommates and family members aren't raising hell to their elected representatives about this. Sadly, I think it's largely because those roommates and family members don't want to admit to anyone that they're associated with a PFR. I know that's true in my own family and limited friendship circle.

By: Bwj

Bwj — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 22:28:16 +0000

In reply to Jim. I couldn't even get that job in Volusia County.

By: CherokeeJack

CherokeeJack — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 17:01:46 +0000

I still think roommates or relatives having to register their vehicles should be unconstitutional and could cause them to be pulled over for no reason. I used to have roommates but when they started doing that, all my roommates moved out once I told them their cars had to be registered. That cost me over $800 a month loss by losing two roommates but I do not blame them.

[Moderator’s note: Thus far we’ve received no reports of any roommates or relatives pulled over for no reason other than driving a registered vehicle. But if this has happened to you, consider sharing that experience here].

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 16:42:54 +0000

In reply to TampaBay. Because they can. I registered my &@[] fishing license... just to be safe.

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 16:38:44 +0000

In reply to Steve.

I have been saying that the state has made us unemployable for years. They probably expect us to dig ditches for minimum wage. I’m too old for that crap. Also, I feel you on the ptsd. My heart jumps EVERY time the doorbell rings. I dread being pulled, over or even being in a car that’s pulled over.
How did you get the disability? Did you use being a registrant as the disability? It should be. LMK… Please!

By: VOCAL

VOCAL — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 10:20:42 +0000

In reply to Tony.

Tony:
That’s why it’s unconstitutional. How can you abide by a law when even the police don’t know how to apply it or enforce it unevenly.

By: Tony

Tony — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 03:44:15 +0000

All this is so confusing.

By: RM

RM — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 01:29:13 +0000

In reply to Vehicle Owner.

That’s not what the statute says. It says that you have to register any vehicle owned, leased, rented, etc. by anyone who resides at your residence for 5 more more days. Nothing in the statute actually says the vehicle has to be parked at your home:

“Vehicles owned” means any motor vehicle as defined in s. 320.01, which is registered, coregistered, leased, titled, or rented by a sexual predator or sexual offender; a rented vehicle that a sexual predator or sexual offender is authorized to drive; or a vehicle for which a sexual predator or sexual offender is insured as a driver. The term also includes any motor vehicle as defined in s. 320.01, which is registered, coregistered, leased, titled, or rented by a person or persons residing at a sexual predator’s or sexual offender’s permanent residence for 5 or more consecutive days.

As you can see, the law doesn’t state that the vehicle has to be anywhere near your home, which actually makes the law absurd.