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Something worse than flock is coming, and it is as bad as you think.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/tech-companies/think-flock-is-bad-tech-is-coming-to-link-license-plates-with-your-phone/ar-AA2aerQx?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=LCTS&cvid=6a872cc278314f0f8821bf1002523f27&ei=19
Someone needs to create a “Myth vs Reality” info-graphic for the media, child safety advocacy groups and anyone else that needs correction on this subject of those forced to comply under governemnt impositional registration.
I’ll start:
1. Everything you’ve been told about *ex *ffenders is a lie. You’ve been conditioned to believe and accept what you see in crime shows and the media is real. It’s not. The governemnt relies on your fear and digust to help sell that lie.
2. The SOR will never do what you think it does.
3. People listed on registries do not pose a legitimate public safety risk, but law enforcement will adamantly claim the exact opposite in hiopes you will continue to fall for it.
4. The registry is mostly a revenge fantasy and not a legitimate public awareness or prevention tool.
5. If the registry didn’t exist, your child would not be less safe or more vulnerable to harm, abuse or kidnapping.
6. The goverment falsely claims and over-sells the notion that those on registries are “known threats” or “ticking time-bombs” that are constantly looking for access to your children.
7. The registry will never function as a deterrent or foster any form of safety.
The registry claims another life https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/local-news/suspect-came-to-lubbock-to-kill-a-child-molester-court-records-say/amp/
Hey everyone. Just wanted to inform those living in Osceola County, specifically Kissimmee city limits of a new tactic that FDLE and Kissimmee PD are using to catch a person’s internet identifiers. On doing an address check they will ask you if you have anything you need to register, usually the person says no, then they will ask you that if they call the cell number you have registered will your phone ring, of course the PFR usually says yes and gets their phone, the phone rings then KPD will ask if they may look at your phone and they scroll looking for applications they consider “internet identifiers”. I have seen at least 3 recent arrest reports where this has gotten people multiple felony charges. I’m sure KPD isn’t the only ones using this tactic as they are usually being accompanied by an LEO from FDLE. If you’re not on probation, you do not have to consent to a search of your phone without a warrant. No matter how “nice” law enforcement may seem their job is to get as many arrests as possible, and they will use every trick in the book to get their quota.
There is a simple fix for this! DO NOT ANSWER THE DOOR FOR POLICE!!! IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHO IS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THAT DOOR DON’T ANSWER THE DOOR! YOU DO NOT HAVE TO ANSWER THE DOOR! the police, fdle, us marshals, etc… can verify that you are living there by other means. they can sit outside your home and watch for you to come and go. i don’t even think if they do that and walk up to you that you must show them your lic. or even talk to them. i never answer the door and advise you not to either. must you sign and initial each rule they list on that paper that used to be 1 sided carbon copy paper that is now like 3 or 4 sheets, i don’t think so and must you sign it that you acknowledge and understand? i don’t think so but not 100% sure i sign it half the time because i feel imitated that if i refuse they will come and arrest me. well they will come for you no matter what anyway! we as a group need to better organize and stop making their job easier! since they have so much free time to arrest and dig deep to fill up the private prisons, etc… and profit then perhaps get guide lines up like not answering the door. don’t sign papers i’m not sure if it is the law that when you go into register that you must initial or sign papers or would they say you refuse to register if you don’t sign perhaps someone can enlighten me/us. or maybe if someone that is good at writing can request from FDLE if you must initial each statement and sign papers when you register if it is the law or not, i dunno. FAC, What’s your thoughts do you know if we are actually required to sign or initial papers during registration.
Dirt bags. You’re 100% correct, if you’re not on any supervision, DO NOT consent to a search of anything!
Worth a read https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2026/08/10/conviction_registries/
The FL repeal of solicitation of prostitution was only done because Robert Kraft would have been placed on there. He go no time, no record, a law repealed and the woman sits in a prison (or did – unsure of current status).
Dear Mp,
You are partially correct. The part you miss about the Robert Kraft case is that LEO’s illegally placed surveillance equipment in the room where Mr. Kraft was accused of bad conduct. When LEO’s break the law, evidence they obtain as a result usually (and in Mr. Kraft’s case) must be suppressed as fruit of the poisonous tree. We can’t allow LEO’s to knowingly and intentionally violate the Constitution or its appended Bill of Rights. Case dismissal or suppression of evidence is an appropriate measure to help prevent abuses of police power.
Thank you for this lead as well very good comparisons
The Mental-Health Cost of Permanent Registration and
the damage public policy rarely acknowledges
By: Charles Gaskin
August 9th, 2026
Registered citizens are often discussed as legal categories, political liabilities, or public-safety concerns. Rarely are they discussed as human beings with minds that can be injured.
Public registration does not end when a sentence is completed. It follows a person home, into the workplace, through housing searches, and into family relationships. Every unfamiliar car may feel like a threat. Every new neighbor may discover the website. Every job application carries the possibility of humiliation or rejection. Even routine contact with law enforcement comes with the knowledge that a mistake – or sometimes a misunderstanding – could mean another arrest.
Over time, that pressure can change how a person experiences the world. Ordinary events become sources of anxiety. Meeting new people requires deciding when to disclose the past and wondering how they will react. Moving to a new home means checking multiple layers of state and local restrictions. Traveling may require studying complicated reporting laws that differ from one jurisdiction to another. A simple family outing can become an exercise in fear and calculation.
Living under those conditions can contribute to anxiety, depression, isolation, shame, hypervigilance, and hopelessness. Some registered citizens withdraw from public life because every interaction carries the possibility of exposure. Others stop pursuing better jobs, friendships, housing, or education because repeated rejection has taught them not to expect anything different.
The psychological burden does not stop with the person whose name appears on the registry. Spouses may lose housing opportunities or become targets of harassment. Children may face embarrassment, bullying, or rejection because of something they did not do. Parents watch their adult sons and daughters struggle to rebuild lives that the public record never permits them to leave behind. Entire families can end up serving a sentence that no court imposed upon them.
This does not mean registration alone causes every mental-health crisis. Suicide, depression, and other serious conditions are complicated and usually involve multiple factors. Nor does recognizing these consequences excuse anyone’s past conduct or diminish the harm experienced by victims. It simply means that public policy should be honest about the human damage it can produce.
Accountability and psychological destruction are not the same thing. A person can be held responsible without being permanently told that change is impossible. A sentence can punish past conduct without turning every remaining year of a person’s life into a public warning label.
Yet much of the registry system operates on the assumption that a decades-old conviction permanently defines a person’s identity and present risk. Growth, treatment, age, health, conduct, and years of lawful living may count for little or nothing. The individual disappears, and the category takes over.
That message carries a psychological cost: You will never be anything more than the worst thing associated with your name.
When society removes access to stable housing, employment, privacy, community, and hope – and then acts surprised when people emotionally collapse – it refuses to recognize consequences of its own making. A policy does not become harmless merely because its suffering is difficult to measure or politically inconvenient to discuss.
If public safety is truly the goal, mental health cannot be treated as irrelevant. Stable housing, meaningful employment, treatment, family support, and a realistic path toward reintegration are among the conditions that help people remain stable and law-abiding. Permanent public condemnation works against nearly every one of those stabilizing factors.
A more rational system would evaluate people as individuals. It would consider present risk, time in the community, treatment progress, age, health, and demonstrated conduct. It would also recognize that indefinite public exposure is not a neutral administrative act. It reaches into a person’s mind, home, relationships, and ability to imagine a future.
Registered citizens are not necessarily asking society to forget the past. They are asking whether a person must be psychologically imprisoned by it forever – and whether deliberately preserving hopelessness can honestly be called public safety.
Charles email [email protected] sorry last time had it wrong