Is it really worth it? What’s the cost of registration violations?
In Florida, registration is for life. We have people with 20, 30 year old convictions who are still on the list, have to comply with a long list of requirements, and if they don’t – it’s a felony.
Take, for example, the case of C.B. (no need to use his real name and have another harassing link up when he’s googled, but you can read the original report in yesterday’s Ocala News.)
He’s registered 30 times in Florida, last month reported he was moving to Georgia after his home was rendered uninhabitable and he couldn’t live with his mom and would have been homeless.
According to the mother, the family that was supposed to send him bus fare didn’t and he stayed in Ocala. Rather than live homeless, he stayed with his mom, but he couldn’t report that he was living with her, because there was a residency restriction. So he couldn’t go back to his home because it was condemned. He couldn’t go to Georgia until he could raise the money for bus fare. And if he reported he was staying, he wouldn’t have been able to stay with his mom and would have had to live homeless.
The problem is; reporting you’re leaving the state and not leaving within 48 hours is a third degree felony. C.B. is being held without bond in Marion County Jail, his first appearance is Oct. 22.
When he eventually gets out, he will have another felony, plus he will have incurred a bill from the Marion County Jail, which charges its inmates an intake and daily subsistence fee (that’s what it costs inmates – it costs taxpayers more than $50/day/inmate). He’ll be homeless and deeper in the hole when it comes to affording his bus ticket to Georgia. Is it worth it?
Incidentally, his conviction is from 22 years ago. A Statutory Rape from when he was 19 years old.
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This really PISSES me off!
Why is this not considered what it IS – cruel and unusual PUNISHMENT!
NO America citizen (or human of any nationality) should be subjected to this abuse.
PERIOD
We have to jump throw hoops of fire just to stay out of prison. What kind of life is that? Probably just the one the lawmakers want because they want as all either dead or in prison forever.
Megan’s Law = weaponized hate
@Scott Davis:
You are exactly correct. Megan’s Flaw is immoral, illegal, anti-factual, anti-American, idiotic weaponized hate. It IS an act of war. We are fighting the War on Registry Terrorists (WoRT).
For me personally, I’ve beaten their asses senseless. They’ve gotten NOTHING useful from their nonsense Registries and I have costed them more than I can enumerate offhand. I have made them pay and pay and pay. Year after year. They lost the war decades ago but they are too stupid to know it and too arrogant to care. So they’ll keep paying. Bummer.
The Registries are simply not going to exist without war. And I personally am going to be satisfied with the results of the WoRT or I’ll continue to escalate it. But we have seen even with big government’s War on Drugs that they literally DO NOT CARE if they are doing anything intelligent or useful or not. They will do stupid forever. It is kind of their thing. So I’m not expecting the WoRT to end any time soon. Okay with me I guess. I’ve already won.
ALL Americans need to ensure that the Registries are much worse than just merely worthless, as they naturally are. Registries should only exist at the highest possible cost of time, money, effort, kindness, and all other limited resources. The highest possible cost. Make it cost. Families that are listed on the Registries (Registered Families (RFs)) should recognize that they have been relieved of the actual DUTY to be good citizens. They don’t have to worry about that any longer. That obligation belongs to people who are not listed on a big government hit list.
RFs must recognize that there are literally tens of millions of “people” living in the U.S. who think the Registries are just fine. Those “people” are simply terrorists of varying severities (Registry Terrorists (RTs)). RFs need to recognize that no one needs to be concerned about RTs OR their families. They are not Americans. War must be waged on them. F*ck them, their spouses, and their “douche bags in training” children. Exactly as is done to RFs.
I have thought for years and years about creating a website that will detail all the ways that RFs can ensure that Registries cost. Just to help with some guidance. But people need to think about it and be creative. Help people you KNOW are not RTs. Help people who are decent and be a great friend and neighbor to those people. But forget about everyone else.
RFs need to ensure that they are not helping anyone or anything that might be an RT. Do not donate blood. Do not be an organ donor. Do not accept Amber Alerts. Do not give to charities. Do not help charities. Do not support law enforcement for any reason, ever. Do not allow them to speak to you or your family. “Compliance checks” or visits are a very minor issue for most people, I think, but NEVER allow them. There simply is no reason to EVER give any indication that ANY of it is acceptable. Don’t help any of it in any way.
SOME law enforcement are decent people. Find out if a person supports Registries or not. If they do, there is NO reason ever to be polite or kind to them.
Be good to good people. F*ck RTs every day.
The newspaper seems sympathetic to this registrant, as evidenced by their matter-of-fact headline and reporting that seems to highlight the law’s ridiculousness.
I do not understand why the registrant and his mother consented to a police interview about this. His mother, in particular, appears to have gotten him into trouble rather expeditiously.
In the article, scroll all the way down for the comment section.
Life long-registry reporting, based on status rather than any periodic determined need (or up-to-date threat assessment) wastes private and governmental resources, and is a deprivation of liberty. My single offense involved an adult woman over 42 years ago. I am told my chance of committing a like offense in the future is almost zero, given my age of mid 70s and passage of time. Another person I know is almost 80 years of age, committed a rape offense in 1961. After being on parole for about 20 years (on life sentence) he was told he would have to start attending sex offender counseling since it had been implemented. He is still required to attend, and like me pay for it. Due to ‘status’. I am told contact counseling providers will not release person such like from treatment/counseling because of the income stream going to the contract providers. There is no ‘legitimate’ state interest in keeping older persons on a registry, with all the requirements and restrictions, 40, 50, 60 years after a single offense. And keeping older persons in ‘treatment’ they don’t need to line the pockets of contract treatment providers.
Yes and the Florida Dept. of Corrections loves to put sex offenders in general population with life sentence murderers who have nothing to lose.
You know the shit kicker on the matter of counseling for sex offenders, is that according to Florida law, there is supposed to be a end period (aka graduation). In St. Lucie county, ol’ Ben Taylor makes it a point for that never to happen, and profits while committing an technically illegal offense.
The sex offender registry in Florida is becoming less about evidence based public safety practices and more increasingly about life long state sponsored police harassment, fear mongering, revenge and character assassination. The sex offender registry is a perpetual obstacle course of increasingly impossible to fulfill obligations creating a living environment of endless jeopardy and anxiety. Florida lawmakers love to publicly proclaim their love of Jesus and claim to be Christians yet they have created and constantly worsen one of the most unforgiving and irrational systems of hatred in our modern society: the sex offender registry. Life long revenge is not Christian!!!!
How much is the bus ticket for him to get out of this awful state?
no clue, but he’s locked up now anyhow and will undoubtedly be on probation (thanks to the mandatory minimum sentence and mandatory GPS) when he gets out. So he’s not going anywhere.
Yea and if the he cant cover a bus ticket I’m sure he cant pay for probation or GPS monitoring. I’m sure those will most likely spawn even more violations in his future. Endless cycle of waste of people and resources. But its apparent to me our society dont care about anything unless it hits there immediate and personal budget. For example, go buy a new car and watch how great they treat you and never once ask you for a background check. They want your money. But try and buy a house next to the same guy who sold you the car and your instantly a scum bag.
All part of the obvious plan!!!
Time is money, “you get the time they get the money”!
Exactly, it’s always been about money. Pffft who cares about what tax payers money goes if they don’t know about it? Those who stand to profit from it sure as hell do!