“The Orlando Police Department recognizes that sexual predators and sexual offenders pose a substantial risk to our community. These offenders, by nature, victimize the unsuspecting and the young. It is in their nature to re-offend. ” That statement could not be further from the truth. FAC shares study after study that show this to be false. As for me, I have lived in OPD’s jurisdiction for decades without any re-offense. I am sure there are many other jurisdictions that use similar language in their public policies and create a false fear in the communities they are charged with protecting.

Thank you Derek for all the work you do.

PS: If someone does retrieve the ordinances I missed please get me a complete copy. The way things are written in the ordinances are important especially if we’re talking about counties.

Unfortunately when some places, like Putnam, realize they can extend the laws, they will. It inly takes one person. One place thinks they’re becoming a haven for Registered Persons, so they act like Sheriff DeRoach did.

I don’t live in FloriDUH nor do I want to, but this subject hits close to home to me. After all, it was my battle with a municipal law that dragged me into this fight in the first place.

I think because local level laws rarely get a lot of attention, they tens to get overlooked in discussions about restrictions on Registered Persons. But I find municipal ordinances to be worse than even the strictest state laws.

By the way, I was unable to retrieve a total of 34 municipality/county ordinances in my original resport, so it would be great if someone who lived in those areas could get those ordinances. Any place listed in my worksheet but has a “?” in the spots listed as “cant’t reside in” and “can’t be in” are places where I could not view a copy of the ordinance. That is thankfully an incredibly small number of counites/cities.

https://oncefallen.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/FL-Municipal-Ords-Impacting-RPs-April2025.pdf

I found discrepancies between my own report and what the OPPAGA put out last December.

Anyways I can more easily review this state’s laws because there are surprisingly fewer local level governments than Texas (1200+) or Wisconsin (even worse at 1900+)

Hi D,
So, from your site not all counties in Florida have ordinances or city ordinances. We just have to get the others moving in the same direction. Thank you for a well compiled info doc.

I already compiled a list of all of the county and city ordinances onto my website months ago. Iam even planning on posting a recent update in light of recent news posted here.

You can just email me for my most current list:

iamthefallen1@yahoo.com