Watch FAC Members speak out against HB 45
You can watch testimony on HB 45 before the House Criminal Justice Subcommittee at the following link:
https://flhouse.gov/VideoPlayer.aspx?eventID=10639
The relevant portion begins at approximately 7:30
SINCERE APPRECIATION goes out to our Legislative Subcommittee for helping to organize members who wished to speak.
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State level Bills and new laws aside, municipal ordinances at the county level are rapidly emerging as a frightful under current of even more unconstitutional laws and attacks. There needs to be a move towards state control over all registry related matters that supercedes county politics. I’m in my 29th year on the registry and I’m feel totally burned out……..
I had a variety of emotions when I first watched this. If I had one great takeaway it’s that not long ago there would have been zero representatives speaking common sense about a bad bill and even less public comment to oppose it. I understand that even those representatives that spoke common sense still likely support the registry but once they start giving themselves cover by speaking out in unison then the momentum can swing, and minds can slowly change. Thank you to the brave reps and others who made public comment. Thank you FAC for continuing to fight!
I watched the circus. I will say there are some levelheaded people on both sides of the aisle. Here is the biggest issue not addressed.
1. The Bureau of Justice Statistics found that 95% of sexual offenses leading to arrest were committed by people not on the registry—a consistent trend across multiple jurisdictions.
2. A 2024 study by Data4Change found that only 1% of first-time sex offenders reoffended with a new sex crime in the state of Florida. That means 99% of sex offenders on the registry did not commit a new sex offense.
3. – The vast majority of sex offenses in Florida are committed by people not previously convicted—meaning they were not on the registry at the time of the offense.
4. This mirrors national trends, where 95% of arrests for sexual offenses involve non-registered individuals.
5. This law amounts to banishment in its current form and I only say because there is conflicting dates. one place says after 2004 and July 1st of 2026 and another area, and Rep Plankton even stated, this only effect those whose offenses occur after July 1st 2026. However, is you move, you are banished.
What law makers do not understand is that adding more and more restrictions on those NOT reoffending only convolutes the registry.
My prediction, and I am sad to say, is this is going to pass unless the above stats are driven home repeatedly. We need to be contacting Representatives, Gotlieb, Skidmore, Bartleman, Lopez and Hart.
Lastly the guy from Justice Alliance may have been correct in claiming 22 million Acres are livable, he was not practical, as most of that land is either not zoned for residential, has no roads, water, power etc.
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Yea, the guy that said there’s 22 million acres that are liveable, I yelled at my phone and said “most of that is forest” lol
Yes. He clearly didn’t understand the bill. Water is everywhere and so is uninhabitable land.
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I know we are not allowed to compare ourselves to those suppressed in the Holocaust.
I know we are not allowed to compare ourselves with those during slavery, and even those after slavery.
I know we are not allowed to compare ourselves like the Native Americans (My own people)
But when do we become a suppressed people? We did our time, and most of were accountable for our actions by serving our time, but the courts just won’t let it go and punish us every day past our sentences, yet they deny there is ANY punishment, affliction, suppression or even danger to ourselves and our families by being on a public sex offenders list with photos, addresses and more.
You may scream from the highest FLA bldg the facts, but they don’t want to hear that narrative FAC speaks. They know it already. They have blinders on to which they run with scissors. They are proving the science does not matter even when proving correct, unless it fits their narrative. However, it still needs to be part of the discussion continually hammered by FAC, et al regardless.
Unless livable acres are zoned residential and allowed for living, it is on livable by category, not reality. If it can be lived on, then the gent should zone it, build on it, then rent or sell it to those who will want it. Other than, he should be quiet. You shouldn’t be able to zone one out of an area given the Civil Rights history in this country.