URGENT CALL TO ACTION: Florida wants to reduce registration period to 3 days!
Senator Lauren Book (senate) and representative Fitzenhagen (House) have sponsored legislation that, among other things, would reduce the number of days that constitutes a permanent or temporary residence to THREE (3) days, instead of the current FIVE (5) days.
Five days is bad enough, but three days would mean no more long weekends away with the family without having to take the extra day off to go IN PERSON to the DMV to change your address (and then again, to change it back)!
HB 1301: Sexual Offenders and Predators
SB 1226: Sentencing for Sexual Offenders and Sexual Predators
Sexual Offenders and Predators; Reduces aggregate & consecutive number of days used to determine residency for purposes of sexual predator or sexual offender registration; provides for mandatory minimum sentence of community control with electronic monitoring for certain offenses.
It will change the current 5 days to 3 days. Require in person notification!
It’s impossible for registrants to comply. This is just another tactic of the legislature to set mine fields for registrants who want to travel or for visitors to our state.
Once on the Florida Registry … even if you are not on a public registry in their home state … they will be now, courtesy of Florida.
For those who DO live here and periodically travel, this requirement is unrealistic. You would have to make TWO trips to the DMV to change your address (and then change it back). For a three-day trip, you’d have to spend two days waiting at the DMV.
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From what I understand, I think you just need to report to the county sheriff that your going to be in, not change and then re-change your address on your DL. I guess we really need clarification on this, if there’s any Attorney’s that are on board that can clarify, would really be helpful.
IN STATE:
within 48 hours after any change of the predator’s residence… shall report in person to a driver license office
OUT OF STATE:
A sexual offender who intends to establish a permanent, temporary, or transient residence in another state or jurisdiction other than the State of Florida shall report in person to the sheriff of the county of current residence within 48 hours before the date he or she intends to leave this state to establish residence in another state or jurisdiction or at least 21 days before the date he or she intends to travel if the intended residence of 5 days or more is outside of the United States.
So, I am going to another state for Fri, Sat, Sun, and back on Monday. Do I need to do anything?
how about for those who travel by air?
I travel to nyc about three times a month by air. about 4/5 days each. I report prior to each trip. At this point the sheriffs office merely puts a note in the law enforcement viewed screen not updating the registry itself with a temp address. I also come in to let them know im back. Theybtell me i dont need to. Its sad that they know me this well. I am in that office more than a person on parolle or probation. Its to the point i ask them to update everything even an overnight trip and ask for documentation. How is this not punishment????
it is punishment.
Some people don’t have such flexible employment or they don’t live near their county Sheriff’s office.
In Broward, for example, it’s in the Courthouse in downtown Ft. Lauderdale. A 20 minute drive, $10 for courthouse parking, wait in line (which could be minutes or hours) and a 20 minute drive back for me. They are not open before-hours, after hours or lunchtime, where I could work through lunch and take an extra hour at the beginning or end of the day. I need to take a half-day off work for this.
This was another great point raised in Snyder by the judge who gave her opinion. Reporting in person all the time for every move is likened to probation. Was never part of Smith V. Doe. If it feels like probation, then it is like a probation, therefore it is punishment.
if this three day thing passes; keep your trip under 72 hours.
If not, you need to go to the registration office
Yet if they show up to address verify you have two shots in 48 hours until they canvass the neighbors and get the afadavit that you reside there. Which rule to i follow????? The local pd or the so dont speak to each other and these silly checks are random and sporadic.
why is it none of these guys ever answer the phones ?? should we just leave a VM asking them to oppose ??.. I’ve never done this befer
Yes – voicemails and emails.
I called on Wed and left a detailed voice mail for them to vote No to this.
I emailed Broxson with a link to this post. Hopefully he’ll see the lack of substance to this measure and help rally to defeat it.
When are they going to tell Book and her daddy that they need to stop wasting the states time and money (and making more needless hassles for law enforcement and the DMV!) and to go find ways to help with the real issues that Florida faces…like corrupt politicians and rich influence peddling lobbyists?
Normal residency for the state of Florida is 6 months. Supposed to get a State DL or ID in 30 days, but not really enforced for people not on the registry.
The Books are crooks and a stain on our state. I don’t see how either this bill or the Miami ordinace can possibly pass the smell test in federal or supreme court challenge.
Why is this federal district so difficult to change when others have done so recently?