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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Maybe it is time for me to publish online the beatings and killings of SO’s in Florida Prisons that I witnessed…I have 45 minutes of video depicting beatings and killings by the redneck fat obese florida correctional officers…yes…all those cell phones that the officers bring into the prisons…yes we put egg back on their faces…so do we use these videos as blackmail?…or do I email Pammy Bondi and hold this under her ‘pretty’ nose?
Just waiting to drop these bombs….witnessed 3 elderly men get killed by Florida Correctional officers and others thrown down steps etc and the neglect by medical staff not treating prisoners….I do not reside in the USA anymore because I realize that the SO registration requirements will never change…I appreciate what everyone does, to try to change things but Florida will never change…I no longer reside in the USA, I forfeit seeing my loving family, but they can visit me here in paradise where I live in freedom and where I only have to register for 5 years…annual registration here is signing into a book..you write and sign your name…thats it!…no one judges you here….good luck to the FAC..thank you for what you all do!
Please share these with [email protected] We can find good use for it!
Release the tapes!!! Blast Pan Blondie and bring down the FL DOC. I too witnessed exactly what you’re talking about and would be more than willing to talk to and be interviewed by anyone that wants to write a book or do a documentary. ….by the way, what country are you in? Sounds like paradise.
I am really confused about this temporary / permanent residency crap. As an ex-offender, not on probation nor community control, but subject to registration, I have routinely rented cars and gone out of town for a week at a time. All I do is report renting the car. They never ask where I am going, so I don’t offer any information. If I went to, Tampa, let’s say, I didn’t check in with Tampa PD or Hillsborough County Sheriff. I did try to stay at two different addresses though, no more than 4 days at either one and not go back to that address for the rest of the year. Was I breaking any laws?
Also, why bother contacting our legislators unless they are on the committees? Once a bill passes all committees and goes to the floor, it always passes. We need to know exactly who is on the committees and contact them. Am I right?
When I travel, I do the same thing. I will not stay at any address for more than four nights, and then I move on to the next one. According to the laws that are written, I don’t believe that you are doing anything illegal.
Under the proposed law, you would need to change hotels every 2 nights.
This law is really a waste of time this registration stuff doesn’t work at all because no matter how many days a person register if they are really sick individuals they can have heads decapitated people in the refrigerator for years so long as they make you registration date they’re okay. And what about the ones that have never been caught and will never be caught?
And whoever created this law they were some really creepy people and probably have something to hide so bad that they want everyone else to suffer for it.
I really don’t understand why people aren’t seeing what’s really going on many want this law to go away even State’s Attorney’s and they are giving attackers lesser charges to get a conviction and the offender can avoid the registration how is this helping anything anywhere in this country?
Jerry Y and FAC, thank you for your responses. Every two nights will be a chore!
This bill will cause me to lose work. I work all over the State and have been able to schedule jobs that are within the 5 day rule. Some of my work is given to me a day before when I’m already on a job. If such such becomes law, any work assignment that would exceed 72 hours away I will have to decline or miss hours on the job in progress. Can this very REAL possibility of loss of income as a direct result of this law be grounds to support a constitutional challange?
Also, what is the imagined nexus or causation by which to reduce the days, other than that, just because they feel it should be that way. I guarantee they cannot point to any crime committed by any registered person that necessitates the change in the law.
Called earlier in the week and left the secretary a message for that moron Ron Book who’s passing laws without any rational or scientific basis, wasting taxpayer money in the process.
I can personally tell you why Mrs Brook is pushing this law for a S.O.F having 3 days to register in Florida, 2 years ago I from CA.- Tom Madison from Oregon-Derek Lodge from Ohio-other from out of state all Protested in front of the Florida state Capital against Mrs Book, had this 3 day law been in place we as a group from out of state could not have pulled it off.
This is really I ama afraid of S.O.F coming from out of state to protest S.O.F laws in Florida by Mrs Books!
I don’t know about anyone else, but when I change residence I normally call a moving company, have the power and water turned off, and vacate the property. No where in the real world does visiting with a family member or friend for 3-5 days constitute a relocation of residence. My residence is where my property is located…and I don’t mean a suitcase…, where I receive my mail, where I maintain the lawn, where I receive an annual tax bill, and where all my family and friends know that I live on a regular basis. Going on a scuba diving trip for 5 days does not constitute a change of residence. Where are these ‘clowns’ Fitzenhagen and Book coming from? They would have been a perfect fit for the Gestapo or KGB, but in the United States they are totally out of place and contact with reality. In Brevard county the SORT office where one could register is only opened on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. I certainly would not plan my travel around their schedule. They are nice people, but there is a limit! And just to think Fitzenhagen and Book are getting paid for this foolishness!