Reason: Florida Is Creating a New Sex Offender Registry Just for Prostitution Customers
Florida lawmakers just voted to create a public registry of people caught paying or attempting to pay for sex.
After an initial defeat in the Florida House of Representatives, the registry—arguably the worst part of a new Florida crime bill capitalizing on human-trafficking propaganda—was revived and reinserted before the measure’s passage in the Florida Senate. The final version, approved last week, creates a database of convicted prostitution customers, targets strip clubs, and mandates that a slew of state workers and businesses jump through new hoops to accommodate a few politicians’ latest attempt to get their names in the press.
As the Florida Senate’s Committee on Community Affairs stated, the new registry “will collect and centralize information relating to those convicted of soliciting prostitution, regardless of whether the person subject to the solicitation is a victim of human trafficking or not.”
The Soliciting for Prostitution Public Database will list anyone who has been convicted of, or plead guilty, to “soliciting, inducing, enticing, or procuring another to commit prostitution, lewdness, or assignation.” The legislation specifies that the database should include a person’s name, photograph, address, and offense. Listed people who go five years without a subsequent offense could have their names removed.
“This isn’t creating a list of bad or dangerous clients; it’s just a list of clients who got caught by the police,”
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when are people going to listen ?politicians wont stop until they are forced to stop.everyone laughed at me in 1997 when I said the registry wasn’t going to remain private and 5 would turn to life..well folks, who is laughing now?its been 20 plus tragic years..look where it started and where it is..do the math..stop deluding yourselves..this will take much more then kind word.courts wont save you..your opportunity to stop this is dwindling..if you dont stand together now with force you wont be able soon..ever wonder how they got so many Jews in the gas chamber ?. your going to find out.
@obvious you’re absolutely correct. Voices like yours and mine are waaaayyyy too radical and dont wanna be heard? Violence against elected officials?? That’s sooooo 1776 and not politically correct. What are you thinking? Lol. Isn’t that what citizens did back then when they had enough of their crap? Drag em out in the streets and tar and feather them? Challenge them to a duel or storm the bldg and rough em up? Yep I believe that’s what they did. The only thing now is obvious, that we allowed the govt to get way too big. You couldn’t touch a politician now because they have 50 layers of security before you could touch em. But I agree, until they’re FORCED to stop, they wont. And you’re right, they wont stop until were being hauled off to the FEMA camps and “re-educated.” No one listens obvious. No one. We want to be too damn nice and complacent
According to the following quote and definition, It could be entirely likely that anyone who “entices” their spouse to act in “x-rated” manner could end up on this registry:
“The Soliciting for Prostitution Public Database will list anyone who has been convicted of, or plead guilty, to “soliciting, inducing, enticing, or procuring another to commit prostitution, lewdness, or assignation.”
and,
Synonyms for lewd:
Synonyms
bawdy, blue, coarse, crude, dirty, filthy, foul, gross, gutter, impure, indecent, lascivious, locker-room, nasty, obscene, pornographic, porny, profane, raunchy, ribald, smutty, stag, trashy, unprintable, vulgar, wanton, X-rated.
So much for legally having kids in Florida!
Much like the SO Registry, this “database” will provide “law enforcement” a steady stream of people to surveil and “catch” again and again, thus filling state and local coffers with cash. It’s all part of the larger war on sex in Amerikkka:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=38&v=v1NbKuQYrsE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwxap5GxOkI
These aren’t the Johns you’re looking for. You can go about your business, Florida. Move along.
I think they should just require everyone to report to them every time you have sex with your wife or husband or whoever so they can have a data base to go by . So then they will know whoever is doing whatever ,whenever. Then they won’t have to keep making new laws to find out more about what everyone is doing.
5 year removal? Sounds like an equal protection claim to be made.
@ FAC What M Slater said About the equal protection claim is anyone looking at that?
Sex offenders are not a protected class.
No claim to look into
Yes just another list for public shaming