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‘Sexual Predator’ License Label Rejected
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News Service of Florida
Jan 10, 2025
https://wiod.iheart.com/featured/florida-news/content/2025-01-10-sexual-predator-license-label-rejected/
Thanks for post that. The article was confusing though since it does not seem like it will be immediately addressed. For now the statement will remain on the license under the higher court takes a look. (From what I got from the article).
Beyond that, isn’t having a photos, names, address and the word sexual offender or predator compelled speech? I think far more people check us out on the registry than they do our I.D’s. I have only showed my I.D once last year and that was at my bank.
I only have the code on the back of my license but the last time I renewed it, the clerk yelled out at the top of her lungs “Sir did you know you license says you are sex offender”?
I would even take a compromise. While on probation or other sanctions, be on the registry. Once off all sanctions, no registry, or at least not a public one. Our goal is to take it down completely, but we will take any win, no matter how small.
@RR
I had to laugh at the end of the article where one judge did not want Sexual predator removed. The judge that dissented stated that takes away a tool for law enforcement to identify the offender as such.
I call bull on that judge’s opinion. I have been stopped several times by law enforcement with just the code on my license and they always come back to the vehicle and say to me “Did you know you were listed as a sex offender?”. “Why I declare kind sir, I did not know that, thanks for informing me”. LOL
My point is, even when I go to the driver’s license place to replace my license the lady tells me that I have Sex offender coming on her screen. Like I did not know, jeez golly jeepers.
Disturbing. A tiktok fad of To Catch A Predator.
https://apnews.com/article/college-students-predator-tiktok-5398cc8d052f7977ffe11bd6cd6638eb?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share
@BWJ
Just read the article and glad this time, the police believed the guy who was attacked as a predator, which he surely was not. I do not use any social media, do not have any contacts with anyone other than sharing on Florida action committee which is my right to do.
I do not go on dates and stay to myself. Even if I got off the registry, I would not go on dating apps. You could be released from the registry then end right back on it due to these vile people who take matters into their own hands. And several people over the years have been severely injured and even killed over social media pranks at the expense of an innocent person’s life.
Those students should be put on a registry themselves, and the college should relieve them of status of student at their facilities.
The irony in this case is that the college students who “set up” the military serviceman into meeting the supposed 17-year old female were apparently not aware that the age of consent in Massachusetts is 16, so he had not actually committed a crime in the first place. The only crime committed here was by the college students attempting to entrap the serviceman in town for a family funeral.
Has anyone else been made aware of the increased intensity in home searches and push for harsher VOP violation sentences?
Check this post on Reddit’s Sex Offender Supoort page:
https://www.reddit.com/r/SexOffenderSupport/s/TdSqCzsoEN
@Anonymous
I hate to tell you this but, that is nothing new. I started house arrest in 1997 and probation in 1999. I had probation, city cops, Sheriff’s office and Florida Department of Law enforcement raid my house many times.
It was not until I was off all sanctions and moved away that I was “Somewhat” left alone. I say someone because law enforcement still comes to my door whenever they please but not allowed in as I am not on paperwork and have done nothing wrong, and they do not have a search warrant, which would be needed off of sanctions.
I feel for those experiencing that, but I have seen it and had it done to me. I always cooperated and said yes sir, yes ma’am, can I wash your car sir. I felt like the way those felt like during slavery, doing what you were told but despising the way I was being treated for no reason other than my charges.
On a side note, when I worked in law enforcement, there was no registry, but I saw my share of people being treated wrongly and I eventually quit because of those incidents I saw but was not allowed to report or I would have been toast.
One guy just spit on the ground, not at the other officer and because of that, got his teeth knocked out. I tried to intervene but was told if I did, my career would be over. It did, but because I chose to end it. I did a lot of crying after that because that job had been my dream since I was a small boy, not knowing not all cops were heroes.
When they show up for spot checks I am always very polite and courteous. They don’t give me any problems and treat me with respect. They due their required check and that’s it. Most encounters of this nature last less than 2 minutes. I have been thanked for making the spot checks easy and told that there is one PFR that is constantly cussing them out and screaming at them.
Which one of us PFR do you think they will target for a violation? To me the answer is simple until we defeat the registry, comply with the requirements and treat the LEO with respect. Make sure we are clean, and fight it in the courts where we can. We stand a better chance of winning in court if we keep our requirements up to date.
I wish the local PFR “advocates” that aren’t on the registry would remeber this. Pissing off the local sherrif because he can’t do anything to you has consequences for the rest of us. Thanks to the “advocate” I now have the sherrifs deputies knocking at my door constantly to do compliance checks. Its getting old. Somebody has made them because they are at my door all the time. This was never the case before. I appreciate the fact Somebody is willing to try and help. But trash talking the sherrif is only making it worse for the rest of us.
I really don’t think this is a “stick against a wasp next’ type scenario. Grant money is usually received in the first quarter of the year. So obviously they have to use up the “pocket change” left over from December or else they won’t receive the maximum amount. This translates into what is happening with the uptick in compliance checks, sweeps and general mischief towards us.
In addition, most departments have their hiring “workshops” in January and provide “tag-a-longs for recruits to see what it’s really like and to weed out the pack early on.
There has always, always been at least 2 or 3 LEOS show up knocking on my door every Feb. You can really tell the greenhorns by the way they’re standing a couple steps back from the lead officer and their eyes always tell me “do I really want to do this?”
@Facts
Funny, when I was on probation, my female probation officer was super cool. If a neighbor was nosey, she would tell them she was my aunt LOL
On the flip side, OFF of all sanctions, some of the deputies and officers who come to my door will tell the neighbors all my business and put me in more danger. My main one that checks on me “Tries” to be discreet but many times a neighbor has walked by while he was telling me to make sure I am up to date on my offender registration. Since the neighbor was closer to him than I was and I could clearly hear him, I know the neighbor did as well.
@Hillsborough
I do not live in your county but do live in Florida. Same for me though as they come by whenever they feel like it. My Regular Officer comes four times a year. But other ones tend to like to stop by just to harass me and say things like “You should probably find another city/county to live in as no one wants you here”.
I told my regular office that and he said if I peek out and it is not him, just don’t open the door. But if I do not open the door, they leave a sex offender flyer on my door and go talk to my neighbors, asking if they have seen me lately.
Folks, things are going to get worse, before they get better, if they ever get better. Every victory we win, they come out with some other thing for us to fight. I am waiting until we have to register once a month. If 4 times a year is ok by the courts, heck why not once a month or even do like probation and come by whenever you feel like since that what they do to me anyway.
Personally, I think everyone – PFR, former-PFR, good American, moral person, whomever – should be “trash talking” the sheriff and everyone else about the Registries. I don’t think there should be any other kind of talking going on. MOST of the time, that should be done in the MOST offensive and obnoxious way possible. Registries should never exist in peace. Some of the time, such as when/if you are trying to “work” with a snake politician, it should be done respectfully. But it should ALWAYS be done. In every case, all the time.
I don’t think it matters much how PFR “advocates” are talking to the sheriffs anyway. Because for every advocate, you have literally 100,000 other people who are telling the sheriffs how awesome their harassment Registries are. So I don’t think I’d worry much about how advocates talk to them.
Anyway, I have no idea why anyone would put up with law enforcement coming around much. I allow them to see me maybe once per year, IF they call in advance and ask me for permission. If I thought they were harassing my family or causing me any problems, they’d never see me. I’d put a stop to it. The best way is to 100% remove access to your home. If that is not possible, I suppose I’d just never answer the door.
I think it is a HUGE mistake for PFRs to help big government with their idiotic harassment scheme. I think it is a HUGE mistake to signal it is acceptable. The criminals should be seeing the opposite. Let them see and understand what the scheme costs them. Registries MUST cost as much as possible.
Lastly, I’d love it if the criminals tried to visit my home all the time. I would love to be able to waste so much of their resources on something useless and stupid. That is the ideal situation. While they were doing that, I’d be yelling far and wide about all of their other failures. I’d surely be pointing out all of the crimes which they’ve failed to prevent or solve, all while jerking it with their Registries.
There is much truth in what you say. I challenged the Sheriffs office in the fact that they were handing out an ordinance that was not approved and on the books. I provided them with the correct ordinance and they refused it because the computer didn’t agree. I then went to the Clerks office and got a certified copy of the correct ordinance and delivered it to the Sheriffs office. It proved their copy was not the approved copy but the first draft. I did it all with respect and did not make unnecessary enemies. They still treat me with respect and don’t harass me. I wish the people who advocate for us would use some common sense as to the fallout of their actions.
Guys if you want to know how screwed up much of this registry is check this out that happened here in VA and I’m sure the methods are similar in Florida. And be sure to click on some of the links in the article. https://www.13newsnow.com/article/news/local/mycity/virginia-beach/virginia-beach-pastor-dropped-charges-attempted-solicitation-minor-speaks-out/291-57ed0e5e-7d1a-490d-a8d1-47ed1489b21d
@Saddles
I worked in law enforcement a long long time ago. There was no internet then. Having said that, I am of the believe, if you meet up with a cop, you did nothing wrong because there is NO victim, but a made-up underage scenario.
I am not saying people were not trying to meet up with underage people, but the victim is not real, it is a cop. That is the exact definition of entrapment. But sadly, judges move forward and do not agree that there was no victim.
I have a question regarding vehicle registration. There is a vehicle on my fdle web page that it is not registered under my name but it is parked on my property. My other vehicle is parked on my property and is registered under my info.
Can they post both vehicles tag info online even though one of the cars is not registered under me? I know they need to be registered but i thought only the vehicles registered under your name specifically can posted online???
Thanks in advance for you input!
So neither of the vehicles i register are owned by me. They are listed on my registration paperwork but not on the FDLE Flyer.
Yes they can. After digging through all of the statutes they can post it. Also fyi a Golf Cart is considered a vehicle under statute and must be reported. Some of the Sheriffs offices don’t consider it a vehicle however report it anyway. The legal definition of vehicle is quite broad. Basically if it has a motor (electric or otherwise) and is not considered a piece of agricultural or construction equipment you are safer reporting it.