@James
That is why I have an “El-cheapo” phone I use that has no apps and only makes calls and texts. I do not travel other than locally and try my best to avoid speeding and usually drive like a Grandma so I don’t get pulled over for anything.

Verizon has tried to kick me off my plan as they told me I am the only person left in the U.S with that pre-paid plan that I am on. They told me 2 years ago that site was going dark but I still pay $30 a month and still sign into the site and they accept my payment and renew the plan for another month each time. They have tried numerous times to say my phone no longer works but I just re-set it and it works again.

Cherokee Jack, I have found many small changes repeatedly in the registry information. The most common being vehicles added or omitted from previous registries. Each time I point it out and make sure it is corrected. I agree it is done on purpose. I believe it is done so that they have an excuse to arrest you and eliminate your chance to be removed from the registry. I save all of my previous registration forms because of this. I go further to scan them into my computer and e-mail them to myself so that I will always have a record of it. Though I have not had to use these records to defend against trumped up charges I have them.

Last year I had to go to Highlands County on a business trip and completed the transient registration there at the jail. I got spooked in the first couple of days and decided to cut the trip short. When I went to the registration office to report leaving the county the Detective in charge was actually in his office. He did my outbound registration and then changed it to a full registration.

This FULL registration scared the crap out of me as he seemed adamant on hemming me up for something. However it turned out to be a good thing as he treated it as an initial registration. He determined that my hair color was brown (It has been a dark blonde most of my life) and changed that. He also during the questions on internet identifiers told me that I was not reporting all of the ones I had. He proceeded to check a data base and found 13 that Google automatically signed me up for when I got a new android phone.

Since I had not used these apps but they were on my phone I could have been arrested for them. I stayed worried for months after I got home that he would in fact charge me with violations.

My point is that we should always be on guard and look for any discrepancy that they could use against us.

@P
Change.org is a legit site if that helps. Most post put a name on who started the petition.

ALAN

In my area, if the registry clerk makes a mistake in even spelling your name wrong, they ding us for the mistake because they tell you to look it over the paperwork and sign that everything is correct.
I once noticed they had the wrong eye color on my paperwork which was odd because I had never changed my eye color and think they did that to catch me up. I called and they corrected it but made me nervous. And who or why was it changed in the first place?
Imagine being in a cell with Bubba and tells you he was in jail for murder. Then he asks what you did to get arrested and we say, “I didn’t have the right eye color”. What a way to live day to day wondering if it is our last day of freedom.

[moderator’s note: It is unclear whether there has ever been an arrest associated with eye color discrepancy].

Any truth to this?

Change.org

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I have seen this petition but want to know if it’s legitimate?

@factsshouldmatter….. keep writing. You speak for me and many. Thank you.

I’ll tell you something that victim culture, society and LEOs don’t want to hear, but it’s the cold hard truth:

YOUR FEELINGS ON THIS TOPIC AND SUBJECT MATTER ARE NOT FACTS!

The registry is misleading to the point of being less than worthless. They claim the registry is a public safety tool or for “advisory” purposes. That’s cute, except it’s not. It’s does NOT matter if the registry is 100% accurate because the core messaging is misleading and inauthentic. Why? because it’s disingenuous pathologize everyone with a prior sex offense and lump them into group.

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@Education

In my area the homeless have no choice but to move. Either law enforcement, the city / or county once they get complaints, the officials come out, run them off and throw all their personal items in a large roll off dumpster.
Now I do for sure feel bad for them, but also I had one camp just 20 feet from my house and I had to be one of those bad guys and report because they were setting cooking fires that burned down the entire woods and we had to evacuate. Luckily no one’s home burned down. Also the smell of poo and urine would come in through the vents of our house.
We need more shelters but the officials always state, where will the money come from.
And on a final note, ANY of us could become one of those homeless for one reason or another, especially with our situations. I was lucky to have my parents take me in. Not everyone gets that welcome home or maybe doesn’t even have any relatives nearby or that want to risk taking us in.