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The addresses of sexual predators are supposed to be verified four time a year. The addresses of sex offenders are supposed to be verified only TWO times per year. In Volusia County, they check ALL registered persons, including offenders, FOUR times a year.
For the offenders who should only be verified twice a year, how is that not harassment?
It’s the same in Polk. Gravy Jugg says the additional checks keep people safe [eye roll].
I live in Michigan. I check in once a year and I can’t remember the last time a state police officer came to my house.
Mac:
VOCAL is very interested in what is occurring in Michigan due to the ongoing litigation. If you could email us at [email protected] and update us as to what is going on in Michigan along with the city or county you live in, it would be greatly appreciated.
We will be posting updates and you can follow those updates at vocalhome.blogspot.com.
Following is Michigan ACLU’s litigation update page:
https://www.aclumich.org/en/what-you-need-know-about-does-iii
FAC Contributer #12:
Thanks for posting this. We are referring everyone to the Michigan ACLU update.
We have had several people telling us that they haven’t registered for years in Michigan and that the police aren’t bothering them [Moderator’s note: All who are required by law are urged to register. Anyone who feels they have failed to comply with the law must consult an attorney rather than share this information on a public forum]. We are actually preparing an article on this and need accurate information for our article. We need people on the registry in Michigan to email us their experiences and county or city at [email protected], so we can pass along accurate information in our article. We are hoping to complete and post this article sometime in June.
What’s going down in Michigan is exciting because it could eventually lead to bringing down Michigan’s registry in it’s entirety. We are trying to accurately report on this and how registrants are affected by the registry in Michigan and need their input.
Vocal,
It was only during the stay home order in 2020 when people were excused from registering, and it was for only just shy of a year. This was due to Judge Cleland, who handled our Does III case, issuing a TRO due to most registry offices being closed to the public. On the day the governor issued the stay home order, we were released from work early and it was my month to verify so I went to do it but was turned away at the door. This was before Cleland issued his order. If anyone in Michigan is not verifying, its not because of that order, which was lifted quite a while ago, its probably because the police are just being lax. There was a registered person 3 houses down from me who died in April 2022, and the website has him listed as non compliant for failing to register and the police have never been to his door to investigate. The house, which my landlady also owns, is now being rented to a new tenant.
I’m following Does IV very closely, so if you’d like any info I can share, I’ll be happy to assist. I’m in Oakland County.
VOCAL has been involved in Michigan’s registry from day one. Hal Nemechek was one of the first people to be put on Michigan’s registry in 1995. He tried to get meetings going in Battle Creek, but could never get more than one or two people to participate. Hal has since died.
Fred Farnsworth was placed on the registry in 2008 for a 1965 conviction. Fred has been involved with VOCAL since about 1990 and had a lot of organizing experience. He was meeting with a small group in Detroit until he died about 8 years ago, so the Detroit group is no longer meeting.
A group started meeting north of Detroit called Michigan Citizens for Justice, but that ladies son died and they haven’t had meetings in years. MCFJ continues to hold monthly meetings in Kalamazoo and Ann Arbor.
VOCAL was meeting in northern Michigan about 20 years ago but didn’t get enough interest and that effort died out. We are trying to restart the northern Michigan group somewhere between Traverse City and Alpena. We will probably be meeting in Gaylord. We will know more when we meet next winter. We are teaming up with the group that runs michsorna.blogspot.com. Their goal is to abolish the Michigan registry.
https://www.tampafp.com/florida-sex-offender-registry-challenge-by-oregon/
I thought we addressed the statute of limitations
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/611538-fdle-arrests-three-sex-offenders-who-registered-to-vote/
Here’s to the hope that these charges are dismissed.
This terrifies me. My adjudication was withheld, so I think I can legally vote? I’m registered, but with these crackdowns I’m too scared to cast a ballot. It would be really nice to know for sure.
I was also adjudication withheld. I have voted regularly for 25 years. The withheld means that you are not convicted.
Thank you so much! I tend to be very fearful and overly cautious. At the same time, I can’t say I completely trust law enforcement officers to ask questions first and arrest later. I assume they can tell that my adjudication was withheld…but you know what they say about assuming.
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2023/05/12/desantis-elections-police-arrest-fallout/
Another registrant caught up in the political game.
Glad to see the paper with held judgment on the registrant past and only really focused on the issue at hand. Also 10 years for failure to register I wonder if they gave him a chance to get into compliance? Yea right. Glad to also see he is getting free legal representation and hopefully one day we will all be allowed to vote.
Many of you all in Florida should look at this little win as a comfort type rest to many. An opportunity to rid the sex registry in many ways. So is biblical Justice the same as American Justice.
Type that in your browser and you will find a wealth of information to combat this also type in Standforfreedom.com as this registry isn’t doing anyone true justice in many measures.
Everyone’s ordeal is different yet authorities demean those in many unjust ways. Cherokee this is a challenge for you and many on the registry. FAC take not and also sound off to the other affiliate’s that are fighting for this end to the registry no matter what state you are in.
Nothing with a bit of Christianity in the mix.
Am I mistaken, I thought Val Parkworst was deceased? I left a comment about Ron Book being elected to the Tulane Law HOF, and got a response from said person.
Not seeing any responses to that comment.
Her comment says “that’s what sex offenders continually gripe about “
Can you link to or show us her comment…not seeing it
Did you receive the link I sent?
I did not personally receive a link, could you post