New Sex Offender Bill in Florida
Just as we announced there was nothing too offensive in legislature, comes HB 1179 (which was filed yesterday). Among other things, this bill proposes to charge registrants a fee to register!
The relevant language of the bill follows:
(2) The sheriff of each county may charge criminal registration fees for sexual predators, sexual offenders, career offenders, and convicted felons for the initial registration, reregistration, and registration updates with that sheriff. Annual fees during a registration year, excluding the initial registration fee of a nonresident of this state, may not exceed $200 per sexual predator, $100 per sexual offender, $50 per career offender, or $25 per felony offender.
(9) Failure to pay a fee as required this section, unless waived under subsection (6), is a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.
Visitors to Florida would have to pay $300!
The bill also imposes mandatory minimum sentences for repeat offenders and standard conditions of sex offender probation, which are equally important, but since the “fee” is a penalty imposed on all registrants, even those who are no longer on probation, you can be assured that FAC will be challenging it if passed.
In the mean time, please contact your State representative to oppose this bill.
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Please keep us informed of any committee meetings so we may be present. It is clear that florida does not want s.o.s to live here so make it as hard on them as possible.
Just what we need. Please contact Gail ([email protected]) and let her know you would be interested in speaking out at one of these committee meetings. Your presence is EXACTLY what we need.
My brother will go on a war path till they kill him if he has to pay money after he has done his time I know him he can be very nice then when some fuck yards tring to keep this shit up I’m telling you people keep it up you will see a blood bath of cop and other he already sick and have to registrant he don’t care if he lives or die
Never a good path to take, but goes to show what you do when you push a man who has nothing to lose.
Nutcase, i feel the same way, i’m tired of it all. Just more BS ad more lies from politicians and media!!! I think the time is coming very shortly with the creating of more shamming hit list laws, employment blockage (health care, etc…), that unfortunately blood will start flowing as more and more people lose hope!
I think if someone keeps there nose clean for 10 they need to seal the record and give the person all there rights back = giving a 2nd chance if it continues the way it is going i surly can see the hopelessness starting to shed blood as it don’t matter that i live or die anymore. esp that my other half/best friend passed away 3 years ago. i have nothing to live for when my puppy passes away, only reason I’m probably still alive as my family sucks.
int his comment i often wondered the same thing, how can the states in one hand say a 15 or 16 yr. old knew what they were doing and can be tried as an adult; on the other hand if a 15 or 16 yr. old hook up with a 25 yr. old the state than says the poor child is to young to make adult decisions. i don’t understand.
the following was a comment reply at: http://nationalrsol.org/blog/2016/01/15/usa-today-rejects-prisoners-letter-because-hes-a-sex-offender/
Maestro
January 17, 2016 at 3:14 pm
I’m not advocating the age of consent to be reduced or heightened, because one thing we simply love to deny as the human race is that people progress at their own rate. I understand that if a law is broken, especially with intent on not caring in terms of ‘heat of the moment’, then yes, punishment is necessary. HOWEVER…(and not many people like this but too bad)…a CONSENSUAL relationship of an adult and a POST-PUBESCENT teenager is NOT the end of the world and has been going on for centuries.
Yes, people LOVE to throw around the word “pedophile” because A)They feel good insulting others and B) They don’t know the correct definition. Somehow you’re a “pedophile” if you’re over 18 and dating or just rendevouing with a 16 yr old who is legally able to drive an automobile. Ironic.
I always and will continue to fall back on the argument (which I hope people will use as ‘food for thought’) of Elvis Presley and Priscilla. Elvis, 24. Priscilla, 14. If Elvis had been charged and arrested, Priscilla would A) Never have become his wife and B) Would have been considered a “victim”. And the prosecutor would say the same thing ALL prosecutors say at these trails/sentencings: “This poor young girl’s life has been forever changed by the sexual assault of Mr. Presley. What he did to her will stay with her for years to come, your Honor”
The justice system as well as probation and the SO treatment groups we are FORCED to take while on probation will NEVER agree that some teenagers take a liking to older people. They immediately tell the SO that he/she is MINIMIZING the offense and will kick you out of the group meetings which will then lead to a Probation Violation.
Excuuuuuuuse me but Priscilla Presley is still alive and each year she celebrates Elvis’s birthday. Not once do you see this woman, all these years later, claiming that she was mentally “assaulted” by her sexual experiences with Elvis. I CHALLENGE the D.A.’s and SO Treatment providers as well as those jackasses who do the SO polygraphs on us to go ask Priscilla how messed up she is for being the 14 yr old “victim” of a 24 yr old man that she ended up marrying.
They won’t do that. It would blow their cover as the deceitful lying scum that they all are and would most likely see a cut in their jobs since they like to call people “victims” yet the treatment providers as well as the probation officers admit that they NEVER spoke to the alleged “victims”. So they just speak FOR them. Even long after the “victim” has become an adult and can speak her themselves.
I am not advocating lowering the age of consent. But I am advocating lesser punishments when it comes to adult/teen relationships similar to Elvis & Priscilla where there was no “predatory” stalking of random girls and the “victim” is not referred to as a “victim” but seen as someone who actually DID give consent and didn’t go crying about the affair afterwards. Because it’s usually the parents who call the police when they find out about the relationship and go ape sh*t.
And while the law enforcement agents like to say the “poor child is frightened” it’s usually due to how THEY do the frightening so as to make it appear worse of a situation than it is.
When I was 15 i sewed my wild oats with a 22 yr old woman who I NEVER said anything about so therefore she was never arrested. And looking back on it, I’d love to go back in time and do it with her again. She was very pretty and had sort of the same facial characteristics as Carly Simon. When ever I hear the song “Maggie May” by Rod Stewart, I think of this woman and smile. She was MY Maggie May and I have no regrets whatsoever.
Let some buffoon in law enforcement tell me that technically I was a “victim” because I was a minor and I’ll laugh in his face.
i wounder how many how stock in the geo group as there will be less people in prison due to laws starting to be relaxed on a certain current illegal drug that is smoked thus they must fill up prisons some how to line their pockets
FL won’t be so quick to legalize Marijuana
FAC should fight this bill before it passes. Total injustice.
As I stated in a previous post, Duval has already been charging $25 for each re-registration for about three years now. Once again this should be an issue of “separate class.” If a fee is to be levied, it should be the same for ALL felons.
I knew at some point this was coming along. All I can do is ” SIGH “…
When will it end ?
Can’t find it! HB 1179 was a Home Health Care Bill passed in 2014. Please update!
This is a 2016 bill, not a 2014.
The numbers are recycled every year.
Not only Florida but many states have considered laws that have a convicted felon continue to pay for their crimes. So much for paying your debt to society. Rounding up homeless and unemployed RSO’s for not paying reg and re-fees would take up every cop in Florida! And there isn’t enough room in Florida prisons as well as each case would have to be legally looked at individually so if the person has the money to pay. If this passes, then the Sheriff of each Florida County could do whatever they damn will please. This Bill has been killed by several committee’s. in the past. Paying the State a fee to be registered is a violation of human rights. t would be landmark if this passes.