Comments on: Florida is misspending resources, missing opportunities and costing lives. https://floridaactioncommittee.org/florida-is-misspending-resources-missing-opportunities-and-costing-lives/ Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws Sat, 24 Feb 2018 22:24:34 +0000 hourly 1 By: Cay https://floridaactioncommittee.org/florida-is-misspending-resources-missing-opportunities-and-costing-lives/comment-page-1/#comment-11264 Sat, 24 Feb 2018 22:24:34 +0000 https://floridaactioncommittee.org/?p=7873#comment-11264 In reply to us army vet ken.

My husband did not understand at the time he took his plea deal either. He had just come back from 3 tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and was struggling with PTSD. He was a homeless veteran at the time of his crime.
The prosecutors used his mental illness against him by blackmailing him. They said that they would take the only chance of zero prison time away if our lawyer spoke to the victim.
Now, every time he wants to motify probation they have to ask the victim’s mother even though the victim is over 18 now.
Florida does not care about mental illness. They do not care that the laws they impose on my husband creates more PTSD moments. Florida is not for our war veterans.

]]> By: Karen https://floridaactioncommittee.org/florida-is-misspending-resources-missing-opportunities-and-costing-lives/comment-page-1/#comment-11263 Sat, 24 Feb 2018 13:23:44 +0000 https://floridaactioncommittee.org/?p=7873#comment-11263 Well said and thank you

]]> By: Iservedmytym https://floridaactioncommittee.org/florida-is-misspending-resources-missing-opportunities-and-costing-lives/comment-page-1/#comment-11262 Fri, 23 Feb 2018 12:40:32 +0000 https://floridaactioncommittee.org/?p=7873#comment-11262 A former Arkansas judge was sentenced to 5 years in the Fed because he traded sexual favors for lighter sentences with young boys I’m sure he was deemed mentally compatent too at some time or another my point being 2 things no one knows when metal illness including depression which is the state of mind a large portion of us were in when we committed our offenses and isn’t taken into consideration by the state at sentencing. Point number 2 is this judge a person in a position of power wasn’t on the registry. I won’t even go into why he only recieved 5 years.

]]> By: us army vet ken https://floridaactioncommittee.org/florida-is-misspending-resources-missing-opportunities-and-costing-lives/comment-page-1/#comment-11261 Thu, 22 Feb 2018 20:36:22 +0000 https://floridaactioncommittee.org/?p=7873#comment-11261 I am a deemed a sexual predator because of a familial case switch
cohesion/sexual battery. I had 20 years no prison time. completed
2 years gps/sexual addiction therapy and all court cost and all
state requirements of probation. went to court for early termination
after 10 1/2 years. now this was 2016. was granted termination.
I did this all on my own with out any help from any attorneys.
Now the question is .? a’m I a risk to society no. this was a family
issue. I pasted 9 polygraphs. this does not matter because I took
probation. I did not under stand what was going to happen to me and my family or the cost of my freedom.

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