VIDEO: House Infrastructure & Tourism Appropriations Committee for HB 1085
House Infrastructure & Tourism Appropriations Committee Meeting for HB 1085, March 27, 2023
Video from the Florida Action Committee YouTube Channel (Subscribe for updates) is embedded below. It can also be viewed on YouTube.
Pay careful attention to what Maney says at around the 3:20 mark.
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Thanks for posting the video. It makes life easier when the link is right there for me to click on.
After watching the video, I was saying to myself, over and over again, “I SURE WOULD LIKE TO FEEL SAFE MYELF!!”.
I’m exhausted from living in fear of possible vigilantes. This red lettering ‘paints’ another target on my back.
They couldn’t wait to vote yes.
This kind of stuff makes my blood boil. Public safety??
More like Public humiliation is the goal here.
The people of Florida should take this board meeting as a huge insult. Stating there people can’t read good enough so they have to color code it for them. All other states are smart enough to not need it but Floridians are not smart enough.
This meetings remind me of Cuba parliament, They individually dont care, they are all on the same side, I can tell you this.. legislator can create any bills against registrant and it will pass under the assumption they are protecting kids and the public. Question is how do you successfully fight against that?
One thought,don’t landlords do backgrounds already? YES.THIS IS ALL BS…I call all the reps on the list and I’m sure a lot of you did the same and on the video none of them mention any of our concerns,we don’t have a voice just like we all don’t exist…it’s very painful.
Yes, landlords mostly do. Especially today since really so much of it is on line and easy to search. A few might not and that is by their choice. Most landlords would prefer you brand their license with a “was evicted” notification. That would be of far more interest to them. j/s
Don’t forget, all offenders and predators have to change their address at the Sheriff’s office anyways. If someone is within distance of a school or park, the sheriff’s office will deny you living there, regardless if a landlord misses the identification marker or not.
Whats the sense of the red lettering,if you get stopped by the police and by the time he gets out of he’s car he already ran your tag and know who the car is registered to,so if the driver don’t have a license he’s in trouble anyway….someone is benefiting this.
David lets get real for a minute. We all have our uniqueness. And of course I’m sure we all don’t like to show our tat’s in public. Whats a predator. Is it some man made label issued by authorities for certain sex offenses
. One wonders if David took a jaw bone of an asp and slew Goliath. Who was the predator and who was the prey. What was the example Are many considered prey victims of their own destiny of their own demise or is the blind leading the blind as one person mentioned.
Talk about a scarlet letter of good and bad or evil intent by authorities. i believe some logical person said their is nothing to fear but fear itself.
In Maney’s presentation, he frequently used the term “sexual predator.” In my state, that is not a legal term of art. I don’t live in Florida but would like to know if that term is codified in Florida statutes or whether it is just some undefined dog whistle. Does the red letter provision apply to everyone on the registry or only to a subset?
I also noticed that the bill also addressed the needs of military families and veterans. It is always a cheap political shot to embed unrelated provisions in such “mom and apple pie” legislation. Good luck to all Floridian registrants.
Yes, in Florida “sexual offenders” are persons who have been convicted of any one of many enumerated felony sex offenses (Florida has a very small number of misdemeanor crimes that might be considered sex offenses but that don’t require registration here). On the other hand, “sexual predators” have been specifically designated as such by a court order after having been convicted of either a single sex offense that is a first degree felony or higher, or are recidivist sexual offenders who have been convicted in separate judicial cases of two (or more) felony sex offenses, regardless of the felony classification.
Under Florida law, sexual predators are subject to certain restrictions that sexual offenders no longer on any form of community supervision are not. Two that come to mind are prohibitions against possessing erectile dysfunction drugs and working with children. Currently, sexual predators have the term SEXUAL PREDATOR on their driver licenses/state identification cards, whereas sexual offenders have a numerical code that corresponds to the statute number of the Florida sexual offender requirements. It currently appears in blue and is discrete and not noticeable by the average person, but police obviously know where to look for it.
So yes, in Florida there is a significant legal distinction between “sexual offenders” and “sexual predators.” Florida does not use a risk-based model but only makes these designations based on the crime(s) of conviction.