Careful @Concerned, you are sounding very logical and reasonable with the established data points and facts you present that may not get heard by one, anyone, who chooses not to be rational with their thinking. Nicely stated here for the masses to read and hopefully digest appropriately.

Mrs. Dashka, it’s one thing to be wary…we have expected some people to not like us based solely on the misrepresentation of the registry, it’s entirely another to try to interfere in the private life of a person who has paid back their debt to society when they are causing you no harm. This is passive aggressive harassment and no different than someone vandalizing your home. It’s especially disturbing that the person in the article who wants to take away his neighbor’s kid’s swing set had to be peeping into his backyard where the PFR’s child is playing to know the equipment was there in the first place.

Lol .. I wouldn’t preach that too loud, you may end up on the registry

@concerned

And where is the child abuse registries? If they exist, they must be private because the only registries I have ever seen that are public are sex offense registries and wedding registries. And many of the wedding registries are mostly shown to those who are attending the wedding.
Supposedly there are murder registries and dog abuse registries, but again, not made public unless you were to somehow request the information.
But for us, even a 12 year old kid can look up our registry. Sometimes I am just browsing news reports or other stories and a link shows up stating “These are the predators in your area”. I sometimes look at them and NONE of the people they showed were predators, but just offenders.

Mark
On my street there are three kinds. A handful of people love me to death. A handful just ignore more or don’t care either way, and the last group (which is about 20 families, are hateful, have their dogs poop in my yard, throw rocks at my window, scratch my vehicle and give me dirty looks when they drive by. Some, if I am outside doing yard work, glare at me like “How dare you come outside while we are driving by”. One guy almost crashed into a tree while staring at me like I was standing there naked or something. I think there are mental health pills that help with that.

mrs
WHAT????
If you are an adult take your kids to the house that you know are not lived in by a person on the registry. I am not banned from giving out candy, but no way on Hell I would do so because I do not want to have kids without parents showing up at my door and plus, even with parents, they may come to your door on Halloween, just to harass us. I turn off all my lights and do not turn them back on until after 10 pm when the kids have gotten off the street.
Do not let someone you think of as the boogeyman to take away from you enjoying Halloween. Do you think we have that much power to ruin your trick or treat with the kids or grandkids. Sounds like the lady who drive past my house every morning and give me a dirty look. Funny I ruin her drive to work every morning because she is petty and does not let God into her heart but instead fills her heart with hate and disgust. I would laugh but it is really sad if you think about it, as I have never done anything to her or anyone she knows I can guarantee that 1000%.

ALAN

I am actually surprised we can even leave our homes without a police escort. I had less restrictions in prison that I do in society. I mean, yeah we could not climb over the fence and leave but we didn’t have to register anything. wasn’t until the week I was being released that Florida’s register came about in 1997. If I had no probation, I might not have had to go on it but I still had probation after prison.
And even then, those who did not have to register, were eventually “Extra” retroactively applied in Florida. Meaning they went back on some people who had served their time before the registry was implemented. Mine was still considered retroactive because when I committed my crime, when I got arrest, when I was sentenced, and when I was in prison, there was no registry.
Like I said, I only found out about a registry when my prison time was up and other inmates were laughing about me having to register once I got home, the same week the registry first went live.
What were the chances? That was one Hell of a lottery ticket I got.

@DVC

How many news articles have you seen of a repeat sex offender? I have maybe seen one or two in my lifetime of watching the news and the person was already listed as a predator. Most of the time we see someone arrested that is on the registry, is just for that, a stupid registry violation like forgetting to dot your i’s and crossing your t’s. In other words, a paperwork mistake. Man, that should at least be lethal injection for that paperwork mistake huh?

Meanwhile, robbers, scammers and other repeat offenders not on the registry, keep getting slaps on the wrist.