Volusia County residents mistakenly get text alert about sex offender moving in nearby
Many Volusia County residents received a text alert Tuesday afternoon telling them that a sex offender had moved in nearby but for most of them, that wasn’t actually the case.
The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office said the message about XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX, should have only been sent to those who live within 1,000 feet of his new address.
Those who received the alert in error got a follow-up message clarifying the information. The sheriff’s office also posted the correction on its Facebook and Twitter pages.
“Volusia County residents: You may have just gotten a text saying a sexual predator moved within 1,000 feet of your residence. That message was sent in error to ALL users. You should be getting a follow up message shortly. Sorry for the error,” the post read.
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Predator is the only word the Sheriff’s use, regards of all you pissed in
“Sorry for the error.”
Isn’t this the equivalent of yelling “fire” in a crowded theater or a reverse cry wolf?
How else are these LEC’s supposed to justify their paychecks?
How is this LEGAL?
I live in volusia and my son inlaw nor my daughter received any text. Im wondering if you have to sign up for text alerts. Maybe the entire county did not receive the texts
Just tired
You have to opt in
Here is from the Volusia county Emergency management website
“Code Red Notification System: If you have a cell phone or unlisted telephone number, you aren’t in our database! The only way to get notifications about emergencies in your area would be to “opt-in” to the free service. Any information furnished for the purpose of emergency notification is exempt from public records requirement.”
Judges, L.E., and government needs to understand that they are risking not only the registrant but also any person including a child that might live with them. The registry is not only punishment for the registrant but all persons living in the household.
B.Webb
Having both worked in law enforement and being on the registry(not at the same time lol) I know some things from experience. Although there was not such thing as the registry way back in the mid 1980s when I was a cop.
From my personal experience, my daughter lived with me for a while when she was 15 and I was on the registry but not on probation. I had two different instances. The first was someone called the police saying a sex offender had some young girl in his house. Secondly, when she said she was my daughter, they told her they needed to search the house. When she tried to call me(I was not home at the time and had a job then) they took the phone away from her.
I won’t go into the rest of it as it will get me upset just typing the rest of the story but basically the family of ex sex offenders are considered scum bags just by association. (To be fair not all cops are like that).
So B.webb your statement “Judges, L.E., and government needs to” although true, most likely isn’t going to happen. a majority of them hear blah blah blah. Just who is going to educate them? And really it is the legislatures that need to open their eyes and ears, they are the ones Making the laws.
But well all know they scratch each others backs with “If you sponsor my bill, I will bring you and your wife on our boat when we go to the Bahamas next month”
The irony is that the phone was taken away from a child so that the only potential victim of a child sex crime was made helpless. I find it ironic in the same way that registered child sex-offenders are made to live away from schools and parks where many parents and teachers are supervising. Instead the child sex-offenders are moved to remote areas where children wait for the bus alone, far from the prying eyes of parents and teachers.
Roger, please do not look for any common sense in what these phony public servants do in the name of public service. They can not see any further into the future than to the next election and their wallet…sorry if the ‘word’ wallet can be construed to be sexist…so I’ll use the word ‘purse’. Actually I’m not sorry.
I can’t help but wonder if they do the same thing for drug dealers, armed home invaders, burglars, arsonist, murderers, DUI drivers, etc?