Comments on: Sex offender housing and mobility: New research https://floridaactioncommittee.org/sex-offender-housing-and-mobility-new-research/ Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws Fri, 23 Dec 2016 16:44:06 +0000 hourly 1 By: WE https://floridaactioncommittee.org/sex-offender-housing-and-mobility-new-research/comment-page-1/#comment-4975 Fri, 23 Dec 2016 16:44:06 +0000 http://floridaactioncommittee.org/?p=5537#comment-4975 In reply to Rh.

I know how you feel. When I was convicted, you could petition the court to be removed from the registry after 7 off of state control. Then they changed it to life registering, and I cannot find one lawyer or official who can or will tell me if I am grandfathered under the old law.

]]> By: WHL https://floridaactioncommittee.org/sex-offender-housing-and-mobility-new-research/comment-page-1/#comment-4974 Wed, 21 Dec 2016 20:57:30 +0000 http://floridaactioncommittee.org/?p=5537#comment-4974 Because of the laws in Seminole County, I am essentially on house arrest for the rest of my life even though the DA and the judge didn’t see me as a threat. I live near a school and didn’t have to move, I am not on GPS, and the Judge withheld adjudication on all counts. Yet, because they have labeled numerous standard streets as “trails” in my area, I cannot leave my property unless I am going to work, to the store, appointments, etc. My sentence was only 5 years of probation, yet this is in effect for the next 22 years at least. I am currently looking for a different state to move to once I am done with my probation.

]]> By: RS https://floridaactioncommittee.org/sex-offender-housing-and-mobility-new-research/comment-page-1/#comment-4973 Sat, 17 Dec 2016 22:10:14 +0000 http://floridaactioncommittee.org/?p=5537#comment-4973 In reply to Rh.

I’m feeling your pain my friend. I was sentenced in a Connecticut court in June 1996 with a misdemeanor and was promised I wouldn’t have to register at all. I did my probation in my home state of Massachusetts . I felt helpless then but even more helpless now. The detectives in Lee County told me they didn’t care about the original promise from CT but because I was on the Mass registry I HAD to go the Florida registry. As time has gone by the restrictions have made me a prisoner in own home being fearful of some yahoo cop scanning my license plate in or near a parking lot I’m not supposed to be near.

]]> By: Rh https://floridaactioncommittee.org/sex-offender-housing-and-mobility-new-research/comment-page-1/#comment-4972 Fri, 16 Dec 2016 17:22:05 +0000 http://floridaactioncommittee.org/?p=5537#comment-4972 The question why is it non un constitutional for them to put you on a registry for life?? When I accepted my sentence I was never told I would be a registered citizen for life. I was only told I would have to register. And yet they still keep adding laws to the already current restrictions. But they ruled that a minor can’t get a life sentence for killing someone. That’s unconstitutional. Makes a hell of a lot of sense to me. SMH

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