Not exactly. Out-of-state and deceased individuals are identified as such on the registry website. But we haven’t heard any elected officials express any justification for continuing to list them.

A registrant can be removed posthumous but it takes the registrants family submitting the proper documents to FDLE, and even then, the registramt stays there for a while before the removal (I believe a year).

I have debated with my family on weather or not to have myself removed once I pass myself. Part of me wants them to not bother mainly so they can show that the registry is a joke that still “tracks” deceased beings, and part of me wants them to have me removed to help with bringing down the the numbers, under the same guise that they (the state and people) use, “if it removes just one name, it’s doing the job”.

They have justified it as being able to give the victim, et al, time to be notified they person has passed but never have said how long that time needs to be after they passed.

The funny thing about that is that part of federal compliance is having active warrants out on registrants with out-of-date entries. So from that, we’re apparently to presume that Florida has active warrants out on all of its dead and out-of-state registrants to ensure their status hasn’t changed. That there are not, I would think, would push Florida out of compliance with federal standards regarding their funding rules.

But of course, like every other government office at all levels, the last thing on earth that the so-called SMART office wants is to end the year at or under budget. That’s why the full compliance originally required for their grants was changed to “substantial” compliance – too many states found that full compliance would cost more than the grants that were offered.

Bingo. This right here. And for the exact same reason dead registrants aren’t removed (despite registration being “for life”). I would really like one of the Florida courts mentioned above to explain the “rational relationship” of continued registration of dead and out-of-state persons to the state’s (presumed*) interest in protecting Floridians.

So in other words Gov. DeSantis and those before him and all the congress people, politicians, and policing are defrauding taxpayers and our federal government by keeping people on the rolls who shouldn’t even be there. HMMMMMM!!

Ben, the “national” registry simply pulls info from all the states, so if a person is removed from that state, he/she comes off the national one too.

What ongoing violation? In FLA’s eyes, there is none but to the PFR there is who is no longer in FLA. Does it not need to be declared a violation first before it can be challenged?

Thanks for all you do to keep the forum masses educated. It is a learning experience each time.