well Iowa is not to much better. Iowa congressman D fisher
Introduced 2023

90th General Assembly
Bill Summary
A bill for an act modifying sex offender registry requirements by requiring sex offenders whose registration requirements have expired to reregister, and making penalties applicable.
Subject

https://www.billtrack50.com/billdetail/1536560

The Romeo and Juliet law in Florida doesn’t create an offense. It only provides a mechanism for relief from registration for certain offenders who committed specific offenses, most often an offense described in F.S. sec. 800.04.

Please refer to Florida Statute Section 794.05(1), regarding Unlawful Sexual Activity with Certain Minors (16/17 years of age):

794.05 Unlawful sexual activity with certain minors.—
(1) A person 24 years of age or older who engages in sexual activity with a person 16 or 17 years of age commits a felony of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.

It is not an offense in Florida for a 21-year-old to have consensual sexual activity with 16 or 17-year-old.

You’re statement that “Anything sexual in nature that is committed by someone who is 18 or over with anyone who is under the age of 18 in Florida is subject to criminal charges” is just not correct.

If registration laws are only intended to protect children, they do an awfully poor job of doing so. I worry for any child whose caregiver relies on the registry for their children’s’ safety.

If you agree that 21-year-olds and 16-year-olds should no longer be covered by these laws, you may need to contact your legislator to change them.

Um ok that’s one bs scenario that isnt even very important and the laws aren’t for them. They are for the 5 yr old that got sexually assaulted in one state by a man who goes on to move to another state where he isn’t registered so that he can go about finding his next victim to abuse. It’s common sense. These laws aren’t in place for 21 yr olds and 16 yr olds. They are to PROTECT CHILDREN.

Yeah I’ve been on the sex offender registration going on 12 years now all over a lying 18 year old girl’s mother that said her daughter had been sexually abused and when they run a rape kit on her and did all that there they found nothing because nothing had happened to her she came to my house in her own car spend the night with me change close to my house and got up the next morning and Kiss Me by and then told her mother because her mother couldn’t get ahold of her that supposedly when she woke up that her hand was in my pants in my hand was in her pants but that she couldn’t tell him if my Johnson was hard or not and this has been nothing but a lie since day one in the girl finally admitted to several people that nothing happened so yeah Marion County Florida in Ocala that’s what kind of trash in what kind of Injustice bull is here in this place also and now that’s in Florida

Apologies @RM,

I must disagree in respect to what you posted above.

The Romeo & Juliet Law applies when the following criteria is met:

The victim is between the ages of 14 and 17.
The victim was no more than four years younger than the offender.
The victim must have been a willing participant in the sexual activity.
The offender does not have any previous sex crimes on their record.


This is applicable in the State of Florida. Anything sexual in nature that is committed by someone who is 18 or over with anyone who is under the age of 18 in Florida is subject to criminal charges. If the crime fits the criteria of the Romeo & Juliet statute, a petition may be made AFTER conviction.

You’re facts are incorrect. First of all, it is not illegal for a 21-year old to have consensual sexual activity with a 16-year old in Florida. It is illegal for a person 24 years of age or older to do so under Florida Statute sec. 749.05(1). Second of all, a person 24 years of age or older who engages in unlawful sexual activity with a person 16 or 17 years of age is eligible to petition the circuit court for removal of the requirement to register either 20 or 25 years after release, depending on the date of the offense, pursuant to Florida Statute sec. 943.0435, provided that they are not arrested for any misdemeanor or felony offense after release.

I am not expressing agreement or disagreement with any of your opinions. Nor am I expressing any opinion on the relevant Florida statutes. I am only pointing out factual errors in your post.

If a 21-year-old in Florida has sex with a 16-year-old, then he/she is eligible to be placed on the sex offense registry in Florida for life. If the same thing happens in Washington state, it is not a sex crime.

So if these 21-year-olds in Florida, who had sex with their consenting 16-year-old girlfriends, decide to move to Washington, then they will be placed on the registry and suffer all the draconian laws/ordinances that go with it, while now living in a state that does not consider this particular sexual act a crime. These out-of-state residents are being punished for NOT committing a crime in Washington.

There are other states that do not consider this situation a crime, with New York being one of them.

The Justices on the Washington State Supreme Court need to get their heads out of the sand and start ruling with some common sense.

https://www.q13fox.com/news/change-in-legal-ruling-creates-stricter-rules-for-washington-sex-offenders

Since when is slavery not legal? Did you not read the fine print in the 13th amendment? Angola was a plantation in Louisiana where black men picked cotton while a white man on horseback supervised. I know this because I saw a photograph taken in…..2018! Angola is now the largest prison in the USA. The land of the free because 80% of all black men don’t go to prison.

Unexperencedonthis
that is the million dollar question ive been asking !!
“off 15yrs i move to a different state possible i have to register if they deside to join me up?”

seems we paid the price for our crime my case 10yrs and now Im still trapped in this state fear of moving so another state can be forced to join up again,