Jacksonville (Duval County) announces closure of registration office on Fridays
For our members in Duval/Jacksonville. FAC has been informed that a notice has been posted in the Jacksonville registration office that effective October 5, 2026, they will be closed on Friday. Not only does this present a significant inconvenience (registration hours reduced by 20%), but it makes compliance with the law impossible in some cases.
Below is FAC’s response to this closure.
FAC Letter to Duval re Closure 07172026
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I do believe that several years ago it was judged in Florida that registrants have the right to register, so I don’t see how this can be lawful.
The registration fee is to provide the necessary resources for people to register.
A call should be made to the Attorney General that this closure will certainly force some people into non-compliance and deny them their right to register.
This could also start other counties to do the same.
The Attorney general unfortunately only wants to incarcerate people on the registry and wouldnt care
TK most likely doesn’t care, it probably excites him that we will be in violation. That just means more arrests and inflation of recidivism numbers. It will be another pat on the back for his “great efforts” of getting us off the streets, and in his own words, locking us away forever or eradicating us. I for one will lose my job, lose the roof over the heads of the family of 9 of us, and possibly more. Friday is the only week day that I have off of work, so to go spend the better part of a day sitting while they leisurely process us through while extorting us out of $25, would financially wreck my family. Columbia county also makes it near impossible to stay compliant also, due to only processing registrations on Tuesdays and Thursdays, excluding holidays. At the end of the day, THEY really don’t want us to be compliant because it increases the numbers for them.
Leon County only does it on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays, and if there is a holiday over the weekend they get friday or monday off so the office is closed. Its only open from 800am to 1130 AM then 130pm to 430pm. so you cant even go there on a lunch break to register
You have to pay $25 each time you reregister?
Peter
Sounds like probation to me. Forced to register well after sentence is done and on top of it have to pay probation….I mean registration fees.
What I am trying to say is, these are things the supreme courts should be hearing, we are being forced into probation like situations, but they do not agree. If it is not punishment, why are we paying to register? Or having to register at all if we have completed our sentences. Furthermore, the registry was applied retro-actively to some like myself, well after I had already been sentenced and after I got out of the big house.
Is there not one supreme court judge with compassion and understanding what is happening to us?
Yes, it is $25 every 6 months for SO’s and (I believe) every 3 months for SP’s. The government, both state and federal, said it is lawful to charge a fee for us to register, even though it is a non punitive requirement for public safety. It’s like being on probation, but without going to check in once a month, going to therapy, and maintaining a driving log, being a few things required on probation. Supposedly there is an indigent waiver for the fee anywhere there is a fee imposed, but I’ve never seen it personally. The only thing posted that I HAVE seen, is a breakdown of how many pennies a day you need to save over the registration verification dates to not get some new jewelry, a chaperoned ride in the back of a car to your new disease riddled residence where they will charge you a daily fee, with a new to you outfit, laundry and food services, and excellent 🙄 roommates. You know, it’s part of the fees you agreed to during your sentencing, isn’t it? Totally non-punitive and administrative, right?
fortunately its free here for now
Here in okaloosa county it’s free for now fingers crossed 🤞
In Colorado, the registration fee is $20 each time, and it’s only paid once a year for Tier 1. I’m considered Tier 1 there. I’d gladly follow that system because your registration is handled by the county recorder’s office, not the police. Anyone who goes to the recorder’s office uses the same process, so exchanging money there is just a normal transaction. In herando now harassed 4 times a year ar front door and im only a dex offender and 2 times in person feeling each time may get arrested with their warrant searches
Thank you, FAC, for the update and your direct advocacy with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office (JSO). I have resided in Duval County for the entirety of my time on the registry, and while I’ve always found the environment here more manageable than elsewhere in the state, it is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the pattern of ‘tightening the screws’ across the board.
The impact of these changes is tangible. Just this morning, I lost a major commercial client due to the new SB 212 rules—marking the second time in a year that shifting registry legislation has directly derailed my business. I have built a unique, self-employed model specifically to maintain my independence, but even that is now being rendered precarious.
Regarding the JSO’s decision to close the registry office on Fridays: I understand they are grappling with staffing shortages and retirements, and that this may be a logistical necessity for them. However, for those of us on the registry, it turns an already complex compliance process into an impossible one. It feels less like a functional procedure and more like a deliberate attempt to make compliance unachievable. At this point, the combination of professional instability and these mounting administrative hurdles has left me feeling effectively under ‘de facto house arrest.’ It’s becoming difficult to see Florida as a viable, much less hospitable, place to live.
I’d give odds that they don’t even reply. They will probably (as usual) ignore our communication!
The fact that a group of persons can be singled out and treated with such blatent disrespect and subjected to such tyranny should be illegal.
In my opinion, we need a new US constitutional amendment that forbids singling out any one group for attrocities!
We don’t count on them responding. What we do (and what everyone should do) is create a record, so when a member gets arrested for a FTR in a case when compliance is impossible, there’s something showing the Sheriff’s office was aware.
Also, all these examples where the screws keep tightening are collected. The list of things to report keeps growing, while the timeline within which to register them and the availability of sheriff’s offices to accept reports keeps shrinking.
THESE LAWS ARE NOTHING BUT A LIFE LONG SENTANCE
THESE LAWS ARE A TRAP!!! JUST CALL IT WHAT IT IS!!!
it has always been impossible to comply with, when i was in hospital i was threatened with jail because i did not add the hospital address as a temp address!