“Registering Youth in the Sunshine State: A Report on Florida’s Harmful Sex Offender Registration Laws,” published by the Juvenile Law Center critiques the legal framework, systemic biases, and severe personal costs associated with placing individuals under 18 on Florida’s public sex offender registry.

The Florida OPPAGA Report 24-11

Summary

Florida’s sex offender registry has grown by 139% since 2005, largely driven by out-of-state registrants rather than individuals living locally. While the state effectively complies with federal standard baselines, a growing web of local municipal ordinances has increasingly pushed the in-state offender population into transience and homelessness. Concurrently, criminal justice systems are experiencing a significant, decade-long decline in successful conviction rates for registry violations.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6369019/

Took a while to find again but this is long but a study the shows that currently the public registry itself is a legal tool rather than a clinical pathogen, but psychiatric and criminological studies demonstrate that the collateral consequences of being listed on a public sex offender registry directly exacerbate, trigger, or cause severe mental illness like clinical depression, major anxiety disorders, and suicidal ideation. The mechanism is a cycle of chronic stress, systemic deprivation, and permanent social exclusion.

Hope this helps with the PTSD questions its long so did the summery above.

https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=21487&context=dissertations

https://oppaga.fl.gov/Documents/Reports/24-11.pdf

https://jlc.org/sites/default/files/attachments/2022-10/JLC-SORNA-FL-report-FINAL_0.pdf