I understand, I was just wondering. Like I said, I tried to move away to be treated more fairly but seems most states at the time anyway, were basing the decision on where you came from and not their current law. SO I would have been back to square one AND away from my family so came back to the slum slime state.

I still have to register in Florida. I built my retirement home here in Florida when I moved here to help my parents…who have since both passed away. I have good neighbors, friends and plenty of activities. I love it here in Florida. My children and their families have moved to Florida and live just a short drive away. I spent 29 years serving my country and I do not intend to let a bunch of ‘tin-horn’ politicians run me out of my home. My goal with FAC and NARSOL is to change things so that justice and not ‘revenge’ prevails.

So are you just on it or do you also have to register still? If so, what is keeping you from moving back to Virginia where you can live in peace? Just asking. I would be all over that even if I had the walk the entire way.

Joe
I agree. My incident was in 1991, arrested in 1992 and sentenced in 1993. I did not take a plea and lawyer said since I had no previous arrests and was former law enforcement judge would show mercy. When he found out who the judge was, he went into the hallway and threw up. If I knew what was going on, I would have withdrawn my guilty plea.
The judge basically sentenced me to life. I did 10 years before I filed a 2nd appeal before a “New” judge who would listened and tossed the remainder of my sentence.
Although the sentence was not illegal, he asked me “Who did you piss off to get this sentence?” Looking through the evidence he agreed the former judge had used emotion instead of common sense to sentence me. The consensual so called victim never even showed up in any of the hearings.
When my sentence was squashed I knew that was “Some” freedom but by that time I had been registering since 1997. First 1 time a year, then they changed it to 2 and now for some reason my lawyer cannot understand legally, 4. He wants to go before a judge but I do not have the $1000 to do it and he said no guarantees a judge will change it even though he is 100% sure it is a mistake or most likely done on purpose but the FDLE because of a previous law suit I won against them.
Anyway, all that jabbering was to say what you said, I am worse off than when I was on probation, minus the probation officer and paying a monthly fee.
No way to move on, being on the registry. Every time I got a job, even though I was honest about my charges, somehow the registry came back to bite me at a job when flyers would show up and my work embarrassing the boss or making their way to the corporate offices.

If I see is working on the out of state thing, but think about this. Sure if someone googles you they can find you but they have to know who you are and where you are. One of the advantages of even living in Georgia when you’re still on the registry, at least as long as your conviction is old enough. Is that they no longer keep track of the Internet information because they lost in their own courta few years ago. You don’t really think about this until you can no longer do it but the relative anonymity of the Internet would at least allow you to try to conduct business without being stocked. That’s what happened to me for a number of years until I finally gave up. Likewise if somebody looks up your address to see who’s living there, if you own the property you can just have it registered in some corporate name so they would have to try a lot harder to find out who you were. In a situation like that at least you could try to do some kind of business and you could possibly even have if not friends, at least regular acquaintances. That’s my biggest problem right now. I have been off probation for 14 years and my life is actually worse now than it was back then

New york youre off automatically…. then I came to florida. Orifinally I was supposed to be on 7 yrs then they retroed and made it 20 bit its automatic.

What is even more odd is, Those of us who had it applied retroactively, who got to decide that those who were not on sanctions at the time got a pass but those of who had been sentenced before the law even existed had to be on it?
If there was going to be a registry at all ( Which none of us support ) then apply it to only those sentence on or after the date the law took place. Instead there are three levels of stupidity.
So if me and a friend were both on probation and he got released from it on Tuesday and I got released from it on Thursday and the law took effect on Wednesday, he doesn’t have to register but I do for life?
Some of these law makers need to get a refresher course on fairness of law. Also do not want anyone to go through what we go through but one of these prosecutors, judges or law makers need to have one of their kids on the registry so maybe they can feel what our families go through on daily basis.
I feel sorry for those who live in a sparsely populated area where everyone knows everyone’s business. If you were on the registry where the judge, the sheriff, the prosecutor are all related, you are screwed.

The problem is though, no matter where you move to, if you are still on the Florida registry, when someone Googles you, it still comes up no matter where you live.
So moving will not keep someone from finding out. And not everyone has the luxury of being able to move. Either due to finances, job, family or even wanted to live in Vermont which is cold as crap during the winter.
Something has to eventually, legally give. Just hope it doesn’t take 90% of the U.S population being on the witch hunt list for that change to happen.
One final thought. My Dad use site an old saying. “The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence”. I did move out of the county I was living as they were making my life a living Hell.
I tried once to move to California and start over but found out I would have ( at the time at least ) have been on for life there so moved right back to Flora-duh.

If legislature closes loophole, it won’t be considered ex post facto punishment until the court characterizes the registration scheme in general as ex post facto punishment. In Florida, that has not happened yet. The fix, once introduced as a bill to the legislature, will be retroactive.

But I think it would be a good idea for us to watch for the bill’s introduction and follow it through the process. If there is a committee hearing, that might be a good opportunity for people to express how the registry has affected their families.