Over 93% of potential victims are not served by current policy.

Take the dollars spent here and let’s focus on true prevention. Before a crime is committed and when returning registrants come to our communities after incarceration or supervision and offer support for success instead of so many regulations making it near impossible to navigate successfully.

The research is clear about what works and what creates safer communities… WE ARE NOT DOING ANY IF IT! So I’d be asking our “leaders” WHY?

Jerry, I prefer to take a more optimistic view of the situation (as much as I can…)

I think there are people who care who are not affiliated with an advocacy group and those who do not even know the group’s exist – although they may be few. I also think that the facts are buried in misconceptions and ignorance. So… What do we do?

Educate. Educate. Educate.

I hope I’m right in my belief that the more restrictive these laws and ordinances become the more teeth they weekwill give to challenges of their constitutionality. Cracks are forming under the weight of these laws. FLHB1333 and IML present legal issues for government agencies. Perhaps we’ll be successful in some challenges. Perhaps not. But the education of the public is key to the changes we wish to see.

Excellent article. As expected, didn’t hear about the “operation” being over or the pitiful results on my local news (too many shootings to report). As JR pointed out, each new law passed to add more and more “requirements” is the elephant in the room. Every new law that imposes new conditions on registered citizens who have already been sentenced is in violation of ex-post facto, but nobody but advocacy groups care.

1) what are the statutory titles and definitions of the checks that are to be done?

2) of the statutory requirements that we are to comply to? And are there varying requirements for varying checks?

3) how does “operation predator” fit into the statutory requirements?

I was called to return to my permanent residence and my bi-annual registration documents (that I had just updated three weeks prior) were gone through line-by-line to confirm that the information was current, correct, and complete.

I was fairly well-versed in what situation I was facing when I made my legal decisions in 2011/12. I was not aware that additional checks and information were going to be required above what the statutes and ordinances stated at the time if my arrest.