You are correct. Those designated “predators” say “Sexual Predator” on the bottom right corner of their drivers licenses or state-issued ID. Those deemed “offenders” have the statute number at the same position (by now most know what that means anyhow).

I also would like to know when that started? I was under the impression it was only the statute number?

I don’t think that is entirely correct, Florida only puts or spells out sexual predator for those designated as a “sexual predator”. For those designated as a “sexual offender”, they still put the FL statute. You can read it on the FDLE website on the registration requirements section, under general requirements –
#3 drivers license.

It is the FDLE 2017 update.

They started about two years ago. My situation involved my daughter in 1999 in Virginia. We have since made up and get along just fine. However, when I moved to Florida in 2003 to help my mother and ailing father I was declared a ‘sexual predator’ because of the case in Virginia…where I was not considered a predator. When I got my renewed license about two years ago, the statute number had been replaced with “Sexual Predator”. It’s crazy but what else can you expect in Florida. I built my retirement home in Florida and after 29 years of serving my country I’ll be ‘damned’ if I’m going to let some ‘two bit’ bureaucrats run me out of my home.

Last time I checked it was only predators that’s named on florida license

When did they start that? I have to renew my license in 2 years and the last thing I want to see is that across the bottom of my license. I agree with you that the sole purpose is for further punishment through shaming. I cannot wait to leave this draconian state; our state government reminds me of the old Roman empire during the gospel era.

WHL, I wish that were true and it used to be, but now it is written out in blue letters at the bottom right hand corner of the front of the drivers license. When just the statute number was on the license that meant it was there only for law enforcement purposes but when they started writing it out it became a way of inflicting additional punishment…sort of a DL ‘scarlet letter’.

Florida doesn’t put “sex offender” on the DL, it puts the state statute of the offense in the bottom right corner of the DL. That’s actually better than Alabama because if someone doesn’t know that the stamp is a Florida statute and that it is on there because the person is a SO, then it is meaningless to them. I believe most people won’t even see it. Having “sex offender” stamped on a DL is obvious what it is and there is no way to hide it.

Louisiana puts in red letter sex offender on drivers license and you must also have a state Id marked that way.. both are only good for 1 year, so you pay 4 times as much as another resident