Member Submission: Statement prior to registration
Recently I attended the Safe and Just Michigan You Tube conference. I wrote a suggestion in the comments section calling on all Floridians to read a brief (10-15 second long) statement to the registering officer every time, immediately prior to registration.
I was asked by Judith Levine (a national advocate who was on the panel) to please present this idea for consideration.
I feel that this must be a national mandate. For, if we are silent, then we give our tacit consent.
Here is the text of the statement, which I am recommending:
” Before we begin, it is my duty to read the following short statement: I fully intend to comply with Florida (or whatever state) law and to provide you with all of the information that you demand during this interrogation. However, I am both a Florida and US citizen who currently is under no criminal sanction whatsoever. As a representative of the government, you have no right to any of my personal information. You are about to violate several of my rights under the United States constitution. And I object .”
Thank You.
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I hate registration laws; however the best form of revenge is living your life to the fullest. If people can’t look past your offense and the time that has passed screw them!! Always remember you can point a finger at someone; yet four are pointing back at them.
Brandon, the best way to get even with those who support the registry is to live our lives in such a way that they run out of facts to support their beliefs.
Solomon is reputed to have said, “A word at the right time for it is as golden apples in silver carvings.”
It’s not necessarily registering officers on whom registrants need to make an impression, but the general public— neighbors, associates, etc., etc.
Best way to put yourself out there is just to be yourself so as to impress upon people that you are not the sort of person that requires police surveillance.
The reason we have registries is because they’re popular. Is that because people are stupid? No. Though some will never be persuaded, most simply are uninformed— they don’t think about registries much— and, as a result, afraid of what they don’t know. The more people get to know registrants as human beings, the slower the momentum for more bright ideas in the legislature.
jacob
That is why most of the people who give us crap, do not even live in our neighborhoods. Yes I have a few neighbors who do not like me, but have had things hung on my door before making threats and when I looked at camera, had no idea who the person was. I have been targeted several times and never seems to be anyone I have ever seen before. Why do they care if I live 20 blocks from them?
As I read these comments a few things flash through my mind. First regarding maintaining dead people on the registry, I am not in the least surprised. Florida has been getting away with so many things that are wrong and for so long and there needs to be a stop to them. The 64,000.00 question is how, once and for all?
Regarding reading the statement, I believe the comments listed cover the matter adequately.
Now finally regarding leaving Florida. Yes it is certainly true there are other states less restrictive. There are always pro’s and con’s to each chose we make in life. One must decide for themselves. Remaining in Florida is definitely an up hill battle all the way, when there are people like the Brooks and others in a position of authority.
My heart and prayers are with all those who are in Florida and remain in Florida. The things Florida does and gets away with are unconscionable!
On the other hand, I know what to expect here. in the past I researched and left and came right back when I found out everything is not black and white and the grass is not always greener.
Plus my family is here and do not want to live somewhere by myself. Not that I couldnt deal with it but would have to register in florida everytime I came back to visit parents who are elderly. But yeah, if something doesnt break soon, I will start another search. Just have to sell a kidney to pay for the move lol
Does Florida dig up graves to verify a person is still dead? How dare they violate someone’s resting place. Keeping humans on their registry after they have died or moved is the dumbest thing; however the more people on the registry means more money for the state to continue adding people. Money talks and bs follows. Special place in hell for Florida officials.
Brandon,
“Special place in hell for Florida officials.”
Nope, even Hell doesn’t want them
If the registrant is dead i think his new address should be some cemetery address ,, I mean do not most on line registry’s have report an error link? or report a registrant that is living some place other than where he registered link? That way at least the police can go arrest him for failure to register or at least mail him a summons at the correct address? Not sure but i wonder how the cemetery office workers would handle that letter.
AND what happens if someone new buys that house? THEY are not allowed to make changes to the registry. You brought up something epic. We have seen on here many times someone being attacked and even killed that WASN’T even the person they thought they saw on the registry.
What got my county registrar’s attention was an FAC lawsuit.
Legislature had just passed a byzantine internet law that would have placed a serious burden on internet access and would have made that access virtually impossible. FAC-related parties filed suit. “And they’ll win, too,” my registrar observed, “because the new law is a joke.” They were right.
Really glad to read this comment, Jacob. So much goes on behind the scenes. It’s really great to know there’s an impact.
Another win for the good guys. Well done to all involved. For now all I can do is keep everyone in prayer.
https://theappeal.org/floridas-sex-offender-registry-proves-inescapable/
So, the State of Florida, or at least certain persons who work for the State, are committing a crime by falsifying data on the registry?
From the article: “The DOJ’s award letter granting the money notes that “any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement to the federal government related to this award … may be the subject of a criminal prosecution.”
What is the false data that state is reporting to the feds? Our Out-of-State challenge may need to address that.
Jacob
Was that the Internet law that required every url that was visited and you had to report it ahead of time?
It was THAT internet law, yes.
At the time, of course, neither of us associated it with “Florida Action Committee,” which neither of us had heard of until months later when we received an FAC snail-mailer.