Comments on: Update on the New “3-Day Temp Residence” Requirement for Sex Offenders visiting Florida

By: Raymond

Raymond — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 16:21:05 +0000

If a person was adjudicated delinquent in Massachusetts of indecent statutory rape but whose obligation to register as a sex offender was waived in Massachusetts judicially, does the visitor need to register if they stay for three days or more, since Florida might not honor the Massachusetts waiver of sex offender registration?

By: Shanda Keith

Shanda Keith — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 22:29:24 +0000

I’m trying to find out about the Romeo and Juliette law in FL also if my boyfriend is a registered sex offender and.is having problems st hi current address what is the time frame.he can stay with me.overnight??.Before returning without being in.trouble.FLORIDA LAWS ARE VERY SPECIFIC!!!!

By: Florida Action Committee

Florida Action Committee — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 22:53:00 +0000

In reply to V. You should ask the individual of some credibility where this can be found because we have a very broad network of very informed and knowledgeable people and nobody has ever heard of this. I'm 99.99% sure what you heard was completely false.

By: V

Fri, 15 Nov 2019 19:47:05 +0000

In reply to Florida Action Committee. Hi. How true is this thing I've heard that certain sex offenders can get their registration sealed or removed from public record, if they can prove the occurrence of threats or harassment to themselves or family members? They'd still be sex offenders & registered with law enforcement, but unsearchable. Have you looked into this? I couldn't find much on it, but an individual, of some credibility, claimed that while it's almost impossible to get off the registry, that this was the one exception in Florida that existed; not to get off the registry, but for removal from public record (following an evidenced claim of threat/harassment filed before a Florida court). Thanks.

By: Florida Action Committee

Florida Action Committee — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 15:51:44 +0000

In reply to MD with affected fam.

If you are unclear about the definition of transient residence, please contact the FDLE at:

Missing Persons and Offender Registration
Post Office Box 1489 Tallahassee, Fl. 32302-1489
Toll-free: 1-888-357-7332 (M-F 8:00am – 5:00pm, EST)
Local: 1-850-410-8572 (M-F 8:00am – 5:00pm, EST)
Email: sexpred@fdle.state.fl.us

Or contact an attorney for a legal interpretation of the statute. FAC is not a law firm, we are not license nor qualified to provide opinions or interpretations that you should rely on. One of the arguments in Does v. Swearingen is that the statute is Vague. It is hopelessly vague when it comes to several requirements. If you ask 5 different people in law enforcement what time period encompasses “day”, whether “within” 48 hours means more than or less than or examples such as yours, you will get 5 different answers

By: MD with affected fam

MD with affected fam — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 14:01:58 +0000

problem here is explanation doesn’t differentiate between temporary and transient. The situation of one night girlfriend, one night another place, one night another place, but all in the same county (presumably), even if within the same year, would make the county the transient residence, and not the individual residences, which is technically an impossible reporting requirement, so does the transient residence then really exist at all? To make it simple if you didn’t get: one night, then another night, then another night at a girlfriend’s house, but all in the same year, is still a temporary and not transient residence, by their definition. In other words, only the first scenario I mentioned above would resemble a transient residence, but still couldn’t be a residence, because according to them a transient residence is a COUNTY, and not a place-of-stay, but how on earth do you report a county as your residence? In other words, should the transient residence line be ignored alltogether or give me an example of how you’d even be able to report something like that. Thanks.