What do you want to ask our next potential governor?
With an election coming up, FAC wants to pose questions to the candidates for Governor of Florida. We plan to send a letter out this week.
Please contribute any questions you would like included in our letter in the comments below.
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Even though I live out of state.My question would be would you allow the homeless sex offenders to stay in shelters due to weather conditions like hurricanes or flood watches,and to escape other harsh elements?
Yes, we would.
How far are you up Ron and Laura Book’s asses are you? If anyone were to try kicking them there, would they hit the back of your head?
Phys Ed—-
BWhahahahaha !!!!!!!!!
You just made me snarf coffee out of my nose, all over my monitor and keyboard.
BEST POST ON THIS SITE YET !!!!
(and about the most truthful too)
I sent an email to all of the Democratic candidates for governor, almost 2 weeks ago, and have heard nothing back from any of them. I asked all of them whether they thought that registration laws were too harsh or too lenient or just right, and whether they had ideas for any changes, among other things. While my message made me sound like I was not a registrant (my intention), they may have looked up my email address at FDLE. Or, their email server may have immediately rejected my message if it decided that my email address was “dangerous”.
Some won’t agree with me but first I would like to see a tiered system with level 1&2 have a reasonable time frame for release from the registy level 3 only being reserved for recidivist and those who commit the most heinous and violent. Make restrictions crime specific. Base plans on actual data and actual risk assements. And once a person is done with their legal obligations restore their civil rights. If there is a conflict with the federal government are you willing to opt out.
I would not only ask if the new Governor is willing to return civil rights upon completion of sentence to ex-felons, but also to all felons after a certain time has passed for them?
Next I would ask if he/she is willing to appoint a team to seriously look at all of the research data on Sex Offense, and to instate common sense laws that are based on that research instead of on emotion or the media hype or those that have a vested interest in the passing of the laws ie the Book family? Would he/she be willing to take certain offenses like sexting between teens, juvenile offenders, public urination, and Romeo/Juliet crimes and make them all misdemeanor crimes that do not put persons on the list? Would the new Governor be willing to make sex crime case by case basis of a true risk assessment instead of the current AWA? Would he/she be willing to take all those that are not high risk (true assessment based) offenders and remove them from public registry? Would he/she be willing to remove from those that are lower to moderate risk from residency restrictions and from ban on places where children congregate? Also make the current 1000 foot residency ban for the higher risk offenders a state wide instead of 2500 foot bans on offenders? If nothing else if we must continue with the AWA then make Tiers so that persons can one day have a release from the registry. Would you take offenders who are no longer in the state off of the list?
This information is for all who are interested or affected by a criminal sentence, particularly JZ’s comment/question regarding probation and supervised release. The politicians are only part of the problem and to some extent their hands are tied by the state and federal courts. For example, it is binding precedent established by the Eleventh Circuit Court (federal), which mandates all lower case decisions in Florida, Georgia, and Alabama, that incarcerating a person for rehabilitation purposes is prohibited, but the need for rehabilitation may be considered in prescribing supervised release. United States v. Burgos, 276 F.3d 1284, 1290 n.6 (11th Cir. 2001). This means prison equals punishment, probation and supervised release serve different ends…at least as the courts see it. We know the truth.