We are so fortunate to have an organization such as Florida Action Committee to inform, educate and take a stand for individuals who for the most part very misunderstood or misjudged. There are many similar organizations around the country that need our support. ‘Without restoration there is no justice’.

Thank you Jessi! Your comment made all my (now 18) years of advocacy worthwhile.

You bring up an important point Amanda— only a small number of states bother conducting individual risk assessments.

No your not all bad people thats why I think they need to fix the registry. Those who are deemed a danger to society by the health board are the ones who need to be on the registry not those who made 1 mistake or those who were Deceived.

That’s because their idiots and im sorry you have to deal with that.

I believe that polities (governments) always need a boogeyman.

Sometimes it was witches or devils.
Sometimes it was Jews.
Sometimes it was foreigners.
Sometimes it was Communists or Socialists.
NOW it is “sex predators”.

(And the words “predator”, “goat”, or “pig” de-humanizes the boogeyman and enables citizens to forget that they are human, thereby making it easier to persecute – even kill – them.)

Two reasons for them to keep the registries:

#1 Money maker

#2 Punishment and shame

Of course they are not going to admit to either of these

Amanda

Thank you for being so kind to everyone in here. Most of the bad comments we get in here, call us monsters and leave comments that we should all be killed, or at least burn in Hell, or both.

Amanda:

I’ve read your posts here for the last few days. First and foremost, my deepest sympathies for what you’ve endured as a kid. As far as I’m concerned, you have free reign to hate on your dad as much as you want, to include reveling in his death if you choose.

That said, please understand that Fairbanks is no hero. He’s a lifelong underachiever (Part time waitresses at our local Huddle House make more than the 18k/year he was paid as a “paraprofessional”) who wanted a little hero worship, shown by his confessing on social media before turning himself in to law enforcement. Had Condoluci not been home that day, he would have simply gone to another one of the registrants he was researching and done exactly the same thing. Heroes do what’s right simply because it’s right, without expecting praise or adoration for doing it. Fairbanks didn’t kill Condoluci for you or anyone else. He did it to become a celebrity, nothing more. There’s nothing heroic about that.

And finally, I strongly disagree with your statement that the registry needs to be changed for all the reasons I stated in my response to Jacob below. But I do thank you for acknowledging that not all registrants are cut from the same cloth and not calling for all registrants to be gunned down like he was. I’m guessing you have registered friends which likely had a hand in that.