Amen to that, Too many Chiefs, but not enough Indians. I pray for you Gail and your helpers. It is so much you do. All I can do is say Thank you for your never-ending work and countless hours you and staff put in these fights.

The judges decision in this case appears to be based on the flawed indictment (the wording in the indictment) rather than the statute itself, but I could be reading the filing wrong.

https://www.courthousenews.com/sex-offender-with-secret-facebook-wins-appeal/

I know it’s in NY, but… still should carry some weight in our judges decision

“New York law requires sex offenders to register any “internet identifiers” that they use, but Justice Stan Pritzker wrote for the Third Judicial Department that “an internet identifier is not the social networking website or application itself.”

“Rather, it is how someone identifies himself or herself when accessing a social networking account, whether it be with an electronic mail address or some other name or title, such as a screen name or user name,” Pritzker added. “Defendant’s failure to disclose his use of Facebook is not a crime, rendering the indictment jurisdictionally defective.”

The entitlement was about the attitude that nothing was being done. Not about your feeling of justified apprehension. I understand that and do not seek to diminish it at all. But the length of time it is taking is not in the control of FAC or the lawyers. The ball is in the judges court.

Six months with no response from the courts is not unusual.
Neither is 12 or 18 months. That’s just how things roll in our justice system, slow and slower.
On the other hand, when it comes to the criminal side things tend to move much faster prior to a conviction rather than after.

I wouldn’t say “entitled” is the correct word in this. And while I do not know which word would be the best to describe the anxiety felt waiting for a judgement that has major impact on us would be, I can tell you that I… having gotten a failure to register 10 years ago over an email address I didn’t even use anymore, and having nearly 200 internet identifiers registered with FDLE due to my line of work and hobbies… it’s something that I personally have been waiting to change for years. To see that a case has possibly gone our way with this is HUGE, and waiting 6 months so far for something that could have such an impact on me… well, you give me the word to describe it.

Thank you, Karen.

I have to say I think you are all sounding quite entitled. With the exception of one poster no one else has said they have tried to volunteer. We would all (including FAC) like to see an end to this situation but we have no control over it (nor does FAC) – FAC has come to my rescue more than once in the last 8 years. I know they my back and yours. Perhaps the snarky responses were justified – the original poster made a comment that the lawyers needed to do something as though they weren’t or as though they had control over the judge. I for one (although impatient) am glad that this judge is not rushing to judgement. For me that is a good sign. FAC is not a servant to us – you are not entitled to anything from them (especially if you are not a member or donor but even if you are the same thing applies) and since I know they will maintain a diplomatic response I figured I would say things for them! lol

JoeM – please reach out directly to legal@floridaactioncommittee.org – Legal needs volunteers
Sorry about the crickets – we will speak to membership about that.

That is a bit of a snarky response considering that I have attempted to contact you guys or your lawyers offering to help in any way that I could on a couple of occasions and heard nothing but crickets. Not sure about the other folks on here.