Marion County arresting registrants who didn’t report during Covid pandemic
Reading this article made my blood boil! Counties which were being “flexible” about IN PERSON registration during Covid-19 shut downs are arresting people who failed to register.
On March 30th, the Marion County Sheriff’s Office Sexual Predator Unit (SOPU) posted a sign outside their door telling registrants to wait in line a safe distance from one another, and when it was his or her turn to register, to approach the door and call the phone number on the sign. Registration would then be conducted through the door.
A registrant reported on both April 1st and April 2nd (his re-registration month was April), called the number, nobody answered so he left messages. Nobody called him back and he otherwise was quarantined at home.
When he showed up on May 19th to update his vehicle registration, he was arrested for failing to register!
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Anyone arrested should fight,, fight,, fight their cases and upon victory Sue, Sue, Sue, the crap out of LE!!!
We must realize that these law enforcement vigilantes make up their own rules. I hate to say this…as a supporter of law enforcement for many years…but many cannot be trusted and do whatever, whenever they want with a feeling of impunity. It is what our society is degrading to and it is just a matter of time before anarchy becomes the norm. I hope I will be ‘home’ with my wife by then.
Why should registration offices ever be open at all? It’s the offender who’s strictly liable!
I am grateful that at least the Federal 6th Circuit had the sense to hold strict liability unconstitutional. With luck and persistence, our ex post facto plus challenge will help us get there in the 11th.
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I’m not at all surprised by the tyranny in Florida. Even if law enforcement doesn’t give a rat about a registered citizen I would think they care about their employees. Hypocrisy knows no bounds in the state that looks like part of the male anatomy. I say Florida should be banned from Americans because looking at Florida on a map is a threat to children. Look mommy it’s the state of Florida peeing on Cuba!!
Punishment! Punishment! Punishment! From the start till the end!!. There is soooo much to back that up!!.
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