Florida to use online registry to shame people who buy sex

Floridians caught trying to buy sex will soon find their mugshot online for the world to see. A new law that took effect Monday will create an online registry of people found guilty of soliciting prostitution.

The online database of sex buyers is part of a broader effort to crack down on human trafficking.The registry will target “Johns” who buy sex as opposed to prostitutes who could be forced into sex work, said state Sen. Lauren Book, D-Plantation. [FAC NOTE: YEAH RIGHT!]

Opponents argue the new law will do little to stop human trafficking while hurting people who have already been punished for their crimes by making it harder for them to find work and housing.

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16 thoughts on “Florida to use online registry to shame people who buy sex

  • July 4, 2019

    This may be off the topic!. But I have been wanting to mention the garbage that children have access too. Television “sexual content” is there a lot, or even just a little is to much, and even if it’s just one child that sees “it” and even if it’s just a sexy dancer or a couple lying in bed on top of one another acting sexual. With clothes on, but also with just under clothes. Do the same people who are concerned that child lives to close to a completely harmless person that has to register for anything that they regret!. Are they not concerned that the garbage the same child is looking at could cause them harm in there developing brain to be a perfect, smart, and normal as possible as they go through the early part of there developing critical time in there live not to be seeing anything such as that!!!!. And yes there is a lot of tv that is innapropriate for a child up to the age of 18. And also the cell phones/ internet/ sexual content. Nudity of any and all kinds! This is what makes me sick when the lawmakers are supposed to be protecting the young lives to be a valuable adult in the society!! Why are they so focused on hurting the same people who are trying to be a good citizen who messed up because he or she were exposed to the same garbage when we were a developing child!!! The registry and all the laws that they keep adding on make me want to leave this world.

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    • July 5, 2019

      Television means money. The movie industry means money. The registry means money. So why waste time going after the real problem? There’s no money there.

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