Comments on: OPPAGA – Sex Offender Registration and Monitoring Triennial Review – 2021 is out!

By: Sex Offender Truth

Sex Offender Truth — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 03:10:29 +0000

In reply to Old Karen. Yes, I am one of those and I feel bait and switch and my contract was not honored. In addition this change from 20 to 25 years is certainly unfair to those who took plea bargains based on the law as it was when we took it. How can the agreed upon conditions be changed by one party but not the other? Can someone please explain this? I have never heard a reasonable explanation.

By: Old Karen

Old Karen — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 16:32:28 +0000

I also didn’t see anything in there about adjudication with held folks. They are not convicted of a crime and yet they have to register for life!

By: Old Karen

Old Karen — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 16:15:50 +0000

The effectiveness could have easily been done by getting numbers on the statistics of how many of these crimes were committed by someone already on the registry- we know the number is very low. If the registry is not preventing crime then it is not effective

By: TS

TS — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 18:37:27 +0000

Problem is everyone here is defining “effective” to be a reasonable and logical definition of “effective.” Sex offender laws have nothing to do with reason or logic but fear. They use fear and public ignorance to continue to gain power and punish “the worst” type of criminals. The registry was never about “protecting” the public it was a way to get around ex post de-facto so they could punish even misdemeanor offenders for the rest of their natural life and in Florida their corpse for an additional year.

I get sad when I see such outrage like we didn’t know that this never was about logic and protecting the public but about punishment. We should all know better by now.

By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 15:25:24 +0000

I received the weekly FAC update this morning and I too was upset with the apparent lack of work the OPPAGA did in studying the effectiveness of Florida’s SORNA. I started to write a scathing email starting with a summary of the requirements of Florida Statute 943.04353. Right away, I found our problem.

Nowhere in 943.04353 is there language regarding the “effectiveness” of SORNA in its entirety but rather the Statute is written to study the “effectiveness” of “registration process” and “community and public notification provisions”.

Seen in this light, the reports lack of studying the “effectiveness” of the entirety or SORNA makes perfect sense and OPPAGA has indeed done their job and met the requirements of 943.04353, no matter how much it pisses me off. Writing to them is not going to change a damn thing.

What needs to be done is finding Florida lawmakers sympathetic to our cause, preferably ones sitting on the correct committee or subcommittee, to expand 943.04353 to study the “effectiveness” of the entirety of Florida SORNA with specific guidelines on what should be studied, such as residency restrictions, lifetime registration, the effectiveness of the program in its entirety, etc. Until then, OPPAGA is just going to turn out this fluff piece everything three years because that is all the law requires.

By: Rick

Rick — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 14:58:46 +0000

I’d like to see a marked up version of this report and sent back to the department that spent money to create the report. Then sent to all the lawmakers.

I can’t wait for the next report!!!!!

By: SO

SO — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 11:14:21 +0000

It would be interesting to know how many previous offenders are now on non sex offender probation for violating ordnance’s or registration laws and be even more interesting to see how many were sentenced on their original qualifying offense before the new laws were even implemented that now 20 years later are now making good reformed family men criminals again for absent mindedness, lack of intelligence, lack of keeping of with the yearly laws that change like the tax codes. Oh but the arrest reports, intake reports, court recordings can all contain those same absent minded type mistakes and theirs can be amended but yours cannot without jail time, wearing a gps monitor, probation, loosing jobs and carriers, homes, family’s, reputation, humiliation, all for something that isnt harming anyone other than the personal feelings of those that created the laws. It is personal feelings when the evidence, scientific evidence, statistical evidence is being ignored. A lot of you say the report doesn’t say much but it does. Look at the homeless map. It’s clear from the map that where there are excess law and ordinances there is excess deprived people. County’s where people just register and go on about there day have a better chance at life and happiness and aren’t deprived of liberty. What would be interesting is if excess homelessness raises the actual sexual reoffending rate (not registration violations or other non sexual related crimes). It must because I see that’s missing. And if it was I suspect some county’s may ignore it like the whole state does.

By: CherokeeJack

CherokeeJack — Sun, 09 Jan 2022 00:56:14 +0000

In reply to Jacob.

Jacob

As my ex wife, The Church Lady from SNL, use to say “Well isn’t that special?” 🙂 HAHAHA

By: TruthandScience

TruthandScience — Sun, 09 Jan 2022 00:27:11 +0000

In reply to Sc.

As We All Know, that CRIME EQUALS COMMERCE!

All The Grants, Funding Etc, Mainly ‘Employs’ the ‘Unemployable’.

By: Saddles

Saddles — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 19:21:29 +0000

Doing injustice for justice purposes. Now that is an accountability and also misconception/misrepresentation . So Cain killed Able for accountability or for public safety or to protect his reputation. So where is Florida’s Accountability. Setting one up for a fall?
Seems someone in high places in Florida is missing a few issues in this Government type of justice error. So to error is human or what is unjust today in this registry issue.