A set of bills passed the Florida House and Senate earlier this month that would build a database of people convicted for soliciting sex, and which sex workers and advocates say will ruin lives and put them at more risk.
Senate Bill 540 and House Bill 851, when signed into law, will set up a database that includes anyone convicted of “soliciting, inducing, enticing, or procuring another to commit prostitution, lewdness, or assignation,” according to the Senate’s bill, which was drafted by Democratic senator Lauren Book. The “Soliciting for Prostitution Public Database” would filter everyone convicted of soliciting sex into one database. According to a spokesperson for Book, it would include already-public information from clerk of court including full legal names, date of birth, a mugshot, and the offense committed.
When is ‘enticement’ going to be made a crime? I do not go to the beach…I can get fly bit and sweaty in my own backyard without the travel and having to clean sand out of my car…but I saw a piece on the news yesterday taken at the beach. I cannot believe how women dress…or undress…in public nowadays. I would think they would be embarrassed but apparently not. Knowing how humans are ‘wired’, I would think that such ‘dress’ should be an ‘advertising for sex’ crime. What is our society coming to?
Port Richy Area Hudson,reminds one of Thailand with all the women hooking for all tbey can for the least they can. So the States answer to this is. Ruin the lives of more men
Even if Senator Bimbo managed to get this bad law repealed after it inevitably backfires, the information will be out on the Internet for life thanks to private registries like HomeFacts or those extortion websites.
You’d think she’d understand how the average American feels about their personal info plastered all over the Internet given how Senator Bimbo claimed my posting of her home address online was a “death threat”. (She was using her home address as her home base for her dubious PAC, and I merely republished what was a matter of public record.)
No, Senator Bimbo, you can’t easily undo what’s plastered online, you know, like your daddy’s DUI arrest, or your daddy’s conviction for Fraud, or his conviction for illegal campaign contributions, or the fact you are still pocketing GEO Group blood money, or the fact you are still a primary reason Broward and Miami-Dade County has a unique homeless registrant crisis. No amount of lawsuits and restraining orders can silence the truth.
hahaha..so at what point are people finally ready to ban together and remove of those seeking you and your families destruction ?..you may want to learn a bit about your founding fathers and their vices and opinions of acceptable oppression..its way past time unless you enjoy lives worse then slavery ..at least slaves were wanted and allowed to have a place to live .
If I sold…scented candles…I would love to have a list of people who have purchased scented candles in the past. Likewise the database proposed is a valuable tool for increasing profits for sex trafficking. Legislators understand that if sex trafficking increases by 15%, convictions will increase by 15%. The legislature’s are funded by ALEC money. Members of ALEC include Keefe (more crime, more profits selling inmates commisary), Securus (more crime, more profits selling phone calls to inmates), Walmart (more crime, more inmates to make clothes to sell). Needless to see why private prisons fund ALEC owned lawmakers.
These people are so arrogant that they think they can stop the oldest profession on the planet!
How about registry of closed settlements for wrong doing by the government and other professional who pay their way out at tax payers, share holders and employee expense. These are far worse of a life infringement.
“Well John G Joe is on there paying out wrongful death 2 million that’s why I didn’t get a raise in 2 years and no profit sharing I quit”
There are men willing to pay for sex because they lack confidence in approaching women. How does this make them dangerous? If anything these individuals are opposite from being dangerous. They look for mutual agreements. They are not out raping anyone. They are paying for a service to someone who is willing to provide it.
The dangerous people are those who are carelessly and recklessly making big decisions about other people’s lives, like this, and it’s all done for their own benefit. They don’t really give a damn about anybody but themselves. Anybody who ignores reality and does things like this should be closely monitored. They are the ones who are likely to be the dangerous ones.
If they were really interested in addressing the human trafficking problem, they would, and it would clearly show. They know where to look and what needs to be done. There’s just too much money involved for them to want to do away with it.
And who’s this keeping safe knowing who hired an adult hooker. With apps like hookup, plenty of fish, bars, Bon fires, library’s, churches, work, hospitals there is plenty of cheating and diseases being spread already kids knowing their dad is too lazy to buy a woman a drink and dinner for sex does what. Makes victims! Oh and brings bodies to the court to extortion.
I’m glad some of Floriduh’s stupidity is being exposed on a national level, such as in this VICE article. Of course, Book fails to mention the “Johns'” addresses will also be publicly listed (for no other reason than making them a target).
Book’s assertion, “So if it doesn’t work, the database will cease to exist,” rings hollow and is ludicrous. When was the last time a sex law was repealed in Floriduh? Uh, NEVER!
Seems like entrapment to me if the prostitute isn’t listed.
All this is gonna do is change the trade in favor of the pimps where only known prostitutes are gonna get the work through johns instead of internet and undercover cops getting attention. It would be better if prostitution was legal so people wouldn’t think the police are protecting them from something they can’t even figure out road safety here. Florida isn’t safe! Gangs have risen since the registry has been in place by 10x. Protect yourself!
I envision a huge problem with more than prostitution. Consider the hypothetical scenario where a group of men or women go to strip clubs for bachelor or bachelorette parties and are observed by undercover LE getting “lewed” lap dances. Arrest then guilty pleas, then mass groups added to the so called prostitution database.
Maybe the same Johns will wake up and vote her outta office
And if it’s a bad idea, well Florida will implement it to be sure.
Ok so is Robert Kraft’s name gonna be on it then?
someone needs to let him know to find opposition.
All geared toward men.
And how long will it be before they extend the database to the sex workers themselves? After all, part of their job is to “entice” someone to engage in prostitution. How many names will be added through the police stings, which are judged for effectiveness by the number of formerly law abiding individuals who are entrapped by police? The sex offender registries started out as police databases. How long will it be until this new list becomes public? The government witch hunt goes on….
I’m so not going to put ‘this topic to my headache 🤕 list causes my Heavenly Father tell me that I must wait until he makes a great big move forward where our little humans can’t seem to understand what is going on so I’m just chilling until that’s time come around for sure
If you follow the “Read More” link at the bottom of this article, it says that sex workers will also be put on this list. It’s not only for the johns, but the sex workers as well.
This new database WILL be public — that’s the whole point. The sponsors of this bill have specifically stated that it’s purpose is to shame the offenders in order to reduce demand for sex work (like that would ever work). Because of that, however, the law will be particularly susceptible to constitutional challenge, since it’s stated intent is punitive rather than administrative. It will be interesting to see how the courts deal with this new scheme, once it’s challenged.
Gerald don’t you know all sex workers are victims. No one in their right mind would want to freely have sex for money at least that’s what sex workers are being told