Comments on: NACDL: Share Your Story for Second Chance Month https://floridaactioncommittee.org/nacdl-share-your-story-for-second-chance-month/ Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws Mon, 07 Apr 2025 22:29:22 +0000 hourly 1 By: Cherokee Jack https://floridaactioncommittee.org/nacdl-share-your-story-for-second-chance-month/comment-page-1/#comment-62616 Mon, 07 Apr 2025 22:29:22 +0000 https://floridaactioncommittee.org/?p=24931#comment-62616 Just odd that every other person who finishes their time in prison, probation or house arrest, when done with their sentences, they become and “Ex-offender”. Meaning they are no longer an offender.

On the other hand, for people like me and others, who have finished their sentences decades ago, instead of Ex-offender, we get a lifetime label of sex offender. Myself and many others were retroactively applied to the registry and got no chance to plea bargain because the registry didn’t come out until years into my sentence.

I pray one day we can get our lives back and stop being harassed by neighbors, the public, the news and law enforcement and be able to move on.

]]> By: Duane https://floridaactioncommittee.org/nacdl-share-your-story-for-second-chance-month/comment-page-1/#comment-62598 Sat, 05 Apr 2025 14:11:51 +0000 https://floridaactioncommittee.org/?p=24931#comment-62598 I had already shared a rather lengthy comment and was alerted that I had not been recognized and needed to subscribe my email. I thought I had done that at a previous meet and greet. I’m not sure if my comment was saved, waiting for my email to get subscribed, or not.

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