And the recently re-elected governor dropped several interesting phrases like “tough-on-crime state,” “a state based in sanity,” and made several references to “God Almighty” and the “Lord Almighty” in his re-inauguration speech. I found myself saying “Lord Almighty” for completely different reasons.
I laughed out loud at the “state based in sanity” part. This is the state where the phrases “bath salt zombie” and “pregnant chad” originated. Where’s this so-called sanity? I’m on the registry but I also work indirectly with several county’s government offices like tax collectors, property appraisers and the like through my job. And the one thing I see repeatedly is that, like with registrants, no two counties or cities have the same set of rules. From Brevard’s crazy rules to Dade’s to Polk’s to everything in between, the only common denominator is not making a lick of sense.

They keep u homeless. Their intent is for those on the registry is to die u will become a corpse without a grave. Your states attorney vows to her position to commit murder or get everyone on the list incarcerated.

Nothing in this law forces registrant landlords out of business.

I have been saying the same thing about the registry for years. It’s another, maybe the most prominent, example of a useless law named for a crime victim that would have made no difference in the crime that prompted it, had it been in effect at the time.

And you would have only been sick until the money to keep you there had run out. Of course, if the state was paying, that would have been right around never. You’d still be there now if you had agreed to that. Good thing you didn’t.

https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/898/BillText/er/PDF

The screening portion of the bill created another new law:

https://flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2022/0083.515

The list of disqualifying offenses is not enumerated, but paints a wide swath of red over a large percentage of ex-offenders:

83.515 (3)(b) A criminal offense committed in any jurisdiction which involves violence, including, but not limited to, murder, sexual battery, robbery, carjacking, home-invasion robbery, and stalking.

While the keymaster provision of the bill amended an existing law by adding Section (5):

https://flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2022/0509.211

And the hourly rate provision spawned yet another new law:

https://flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2022/0509.098

So more new laws and regulations which are based solely on what a person has done in the past without regard as to whether the person is a risk of committing a present or future crime. More disenfranchisement.