Martin County deputies arrest multiple sex offenders altering their driver’s licenses
Well this isn’t good… How about the other 99% of the times someone needs to show their drivers licenses, like when cashing a check or using a credit card?
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Is anyone in FLA going to challenge the state code/predator moniker and image on the DL whether in state or federal court using the Doe v Marshall case out of AL ruled on in Feb 2019 about labels on DLs? Perhaps wait and see what happens with the LA appeal to SCOTUS on their DL case?
I knew that FLORI-DUH branded the Statutory Number, but Didn’t Realize that they Put a ‘Sexual Predator’ Tattoo on the State Issued ID for Some!
Everyone Must Read the book, THE SCARLET LETTER; I was forced to read it by the Nuns in Catholic School back in the 1980’s; guess that was a Pre-Cursor, to TODAY’s Stranger Danger STATUTORY Mentalities…
HUMMMM…?1?1?1?
Truth
Yeah, mine has a small statue # on it. Anyone designated a sexual predator has that spell out on the front of their license. You can look at an example online. Personally, I do feel bad for them because if I had that on my license, I would NEVER leave the house.
I mean every time I go to the doctors office I have to show my ID, even home depot asks for ID when you pick up a special order or pay with a store credit. Not sure how that is not ruled punishment at least for those who completed their sentences. Just insane.
So who is the yellow dot with no name? FAC?
How do you respond to one of their posts, re: yellow dot?
So the guy from the Chamber of Commerce complains that businesses don’t seem to know that the label is there, but the business owner complains that it wasn’t there? Seems that relying on a license for an indication of legal background isn’t very helpful, by their own words. Even when the label is there those looking at it don’t seem to know what it means; so what purpose is it serving? This news piece proves the label means nothing.
The news piece proves that the label is punishment.
How is labeling a driver’s license with “sex deviant” any different than wearing a scarlet letter around your neck, or a yellow star on your coat, or a sign on your lawn, or prohibiting some categories of people or certain races from entering a town, restaurant, or wooded area for hiking. Is not that information routinely available during an electronic records check by radio? Is there a presumption of privacy in records? Scholars have shown in study that these former offenders have one of the lowest recidivist levels, but those in the Criminal Justice system seem to refuse to accept the proof before them. Their continued villification keeps them and families from reentering society. Can’t forget that the Registry is overburdened with lesser non-violent crimes that do not warrant this shame and cruelty, i.e., consensual sex by minors (like parking in the 1960s), consensual high school selfies, nudity (like a romantic swim or beach day or midnight hotel pool by adults), urination at construction sites or while hiking, viewing an illegal picture free on the internet. The size of the Registry is overwhelmed by well-meaning public servants. The Founding Fathers stressed the nature of human rights, and the justice in allowing persons successfully graduated from punishment to resume status as a citizen, and live unhindered the best life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness they can. Do you not expect freemen to rebel against injustice, bad lawmaking, by throwing tea with illegal taxes overboard? For those officers that took the time to enforce this unjust law, would it be easier to understand or offer some forgiveness or administrative admonishment, if one of those civil protesters were their own son or daughter? What makes law makers more interested in appearing tough on crime, than ”just” before voters? Many years ago, certain Supreme Court judges favored their role and that of prosecutors, and law makers on justice rather than high arrest rates. What if a legislator put more importance in revising the criminal justice rules that might actually lesson the population of prisons, reduce plea bargains that imprison innocent people, hold prosecutors culpably responsible for hiding evidence, lying, and then help failed souls and families to reenter the community without welfare or poverty or homelessness?
It’s different from wearing a yellow star. Trust me on this.
Exactly. The Scarlet Letter and Hester Prym is a better example.
It might be a different play, but the same ball game for sure.