The 3rd line under the RCI Umbrella is Silverseas. Tho Im sure Carnival does the same thing with all their brands too.

Attorney Ron Kleiner handles FL registry removals. FL law requires > 15 years tho.

My husband accidentally downloaded 2 things of porn 14 years ago and it is on the sex offender list… He is a decorated combat veteran of 20 years.. Is hoping to get off the list next year and Florida after 15 years without an incident taken up live to the government to get off. Can you help with this

I have not heard any new info on the passport branding, anyone see one, my passport is good till 2019, no one has sent anything that I need to renew
thanks

Oh sorry you said the IML – I would have to research that not sure how that went down. I thought you were at first talking about AWA

Yes he did sign it and I was greatly disappointed. However, he did not create it and others signed it before him. Yes he had a chance to make a difference but no president can know everything and was he given correct information? He is very big on reforming the criminal justice system so I have to believe that if he was given correct information he would have considered not signing it. Remember even SCOTUS is functioning with wrong information on this subject.

I agree and even if you do not travel with them write them and tell them that not only will you not travel with them but neither will your families. Here is the thing….no one would ever know at all if they did not make an issue of it. I am sure that the government is making a big deal out of it with them and using fear mongering to do it. On a smaller scale I saw some of the fear mongering and strong arm tactics first hand when the SO of Seminole tried to oust my son from his apartment because of a non-existent park (thank you Barb!). They actually called his land lord and told him how he would be charged and arrested if he continued to rent to my son! It was all bogus! So I am sure that these same kind of tactics are used for this kind of thing.

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One day after President Obama signed legislation that the passports of sex offenders last week, a federal court challenge was filed against it.
The International Megan’s Law is supposedly a way to alert foreign countries to sex offenders who may be there for sex tourism or trafficking purposes. Of course, who isn’t against sex trafficking? We all are! But branding people’s passports to do any good. The U.S. State Department itself found that the law’s rationale is “very misleading.” And after conducting a study, the General Accounting Office “found no evidence that the offenders used their passports to commit sex abroad.”
Got that? No. Evidence.
But heck — what’s a complete lack of evidence compared to political grandstanding? The bill was sponsored by Rep. Chris Smith (R–NJ) and passed both houses with only a single, brave lawmaker, Rep. Bobby Scott (D–VA), speaking out against it. He said that he endorsed the bill’s provisions to notify foreign countries about sex offenders’ travel plans, but was repulsed by the idea of the “unique passport identifier” — government-speak for passport branding.
“It is simply bad policy to single out one category of for this type of treatment,” Scott told the House. “We do not subject those who murder, who defraud the government or our fellow citizens of millions and billions, or who commit acts of terrorism to these restrictio­ns.”
Terrorists? . It is only sex offenders who must declare their past deeds this way. And that is what the court challenge upon.
“We don’t want those ‘identifiers’ on anybody’s passport,” says lawyer Janice Bellucci, president of the group California Reform Sex Offender Laws, who is filing the federal challenge on behalf of four sex offenders. “Our strongest argument is that it violates the First Amendment, because that ‘unique identifier’ is compelled speech.”
In other words, “The government is making you say something you don’t want to say.”
Bellucci has been down this legal road before. Twice she argued against California sex offenders to put “No trick-or-treating” signs on their doors, and twice she won. A third time she sued the California Department of Corrections for the same thing. The department had told registrants they had to put that sign on their doors on Halloween. And if they didn’t have a home and lived in a tent, well by golly, they had to put a “No trick-or-treating” sign on their tent flap. And if they were living in a sleeping bag at the side of the road, they had to put a “No trick-or-treating” sign on their sleeping bag, too.
Presumably this would help fend off the hordes of children seeking bite-size Snickers from the homeless. Bellucci won that case, too.
Like candy-doling, Halloween-activated predators in sleeping bags, the problem of registrants abroad for sex tourism is also not a common one. Chris Smith has written that, “currently tens of thousands of offenders could be as child sex tourists.”
But they aren’t.
The U.S. Justice Department itself says that about 10 Americans a year are convicted of “sex crimes against minors in other countries.” Meantime, there are more than 800,000 people on the Sex Offender Registry — about a quarter of them minors. This means that the vast majority of registrants — at least 790,990 one of them — are not sex tourists. And yet we won’t give them the basic right of this great earth.
The United States anyone’s passport until now. Somehow we have survived 200-plus years of giving all citizens the right to serve their time and then go on with their lives. Former drug dealers can travel south of the border. The Ocean’s 11, 12 and 13 can hop on a plane to Monaco. But sex offenders, including teens who sexted and former flashers now in their 80s, will be branded with the scarlet S and kept in internal exile. It is for the sake of the children, of course.
It always is.

And who signed IML into Law? The wonderful and loved Obama. Why everyone praises him for being a good president when he has signed one of the most restrictive descrimintory laws ever to suppress us even more is beyond me.