FL: Gov. Rick Scott Signs Two Sex Offender Bills Into Law

[UPDATED LINKS 3/26/18] [flsenate.gov, spacecoastdaily.com]

As reported on spacecoastdaily.com

State website links:

https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2018/01301

CS/HB 1301: Sexual Offenders and Predators.  GENERAL BILL by Justice Appropriations Subcommittee ; Fitzenhagen ; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Hager ; Spano

Sexual Offenders and Predators; Reducing aggregate & consecutive number of days used to determine residency for purposes of sexual predator or sexual offender registration; provides for mandatory sentence of community control with electronic monitoring for certain offenses committed by sexual predators & sexual offenders if court does not impose prison sentence.

Related links for CS/HB 1301:

Governor Scott signs Sex Offender Bill (HB 1301) into Law [floridaactioncommittee.org 3/26/18]

 

https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2018/00581

CS/HB 581: Subpoenas in Investigations of Sexual Offenses

GENERAL BILL by Criminal Justice Subcommittee ; Latvala ; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Drake ; Fitzenhagen ; Moskowitz ; Rommel ; Slosberg ; Spano

Subpoenas in Investigations of Sexual Offenses; Authorizes law enforcement agency to issue & serve subpoena in investigation of specified sexual offenses; specifies requirements regarding nondisclosure of information; provides for judicial review of nondisclosure requirements.

 

 

 

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This will certainly stop mass murders of school children and Florida law enforcement shooting un-armed blacks.
Easy law to pass. How many children have been murdered by sex offenders visiting Florida?
Typical of a state where Trump is glorified.

Annual meeting in Florida next year?

They throw these in there just to throw them in there.
Yea we need a couple of sexual offense bills, you know, it’s just customary for us in doing so.

So what do we have to do to fight this? I don’t know what I can do or where I need to be to help. My mom has been doing a lot of advocacy over the years while I was busy trying to kill myself because of this crap, but now I’m finally in a good place in life and would love to help wherever I can

The reason for the change to “3 days” is to keep other activists out of Florida. The politicians have all the Florida RSO’s scared so they don’t speak up for themselves. The RSO’s fear reprisal from their state government and don’t speak up anymore. They have even passed an internet identifier law to keep track of all social media comments.

This should sound all too familiar as the Third Reich did the same within Germany and Poland.

They ONLY way to fight back in Florida is through the courts and only in the Federal system as the state of Florida is too corrupt. If you can speak on Florida’s behalf, please do so!!!! Florida’s RSO’s need the nations help. They have been effectively silenced due to the political climate.

They keep piling it on. It no longer matters. The politicians have far surpassed the needed level of evidence to support the notion that the registry is punitive. All we need now is the perfect storm to present to the Supreme Court. I’m not convinced congress will ever willingly release their cash cow as the court decisions do not change law they just rule on its legality or constitionality. I can go to my grave knowing beyond doubt that the idiot politicians have zero excuse for destroying a large number of people. There is a special place in hell waiting for them.

It would be nice if all of these comments were copied to the source articles. People might see them there. I posted the following there:

It is so funny that criminal regimes like Florida keep trying to polish their “SEX offender” witch hunt laws like those laws have EVER done anything useful or ever will. What a sad bunch of criminals they are. Writing “laws” that will do nothing but harass Americans.

It’s a simple fact that SEX Offender Registries (SORs) don’t prevent SEX crimes and are idiotic social policy. Experts never supported SORs and never will. There aren’t any people who are actually serious about public safety or protecting children who support the SORs.

Most people support the SORs just because it makes them feel good. I don’t think they care much at all if the SORs do anything useful or not.

But I have GREAT news for anyone who does actually care – the SORs are not needed at all or significantly beneficial. The simple reason is that literally ANYONE could be a “SEX offender” and so if a person is going to ACTUALLY protect himself and/or his children, in ACTUAL reality and not Registry Fantasyland, then he is going to have to protect against ALL people, Registered or not. Anyone who actually protects himself and/or his children should completely ignore the SORs.

As for people who don’t protect themselves or their children – they can read their glorious big government SORs all day and night and it won’t change their risk level at all.

I do have a question for the criminal regime of Florida – you intentionally created “SEX offender” pariahs. You intentionally made those families homeless. You lie that they are “dangerous” and shouldn’t live near schools, parks, etc., contrary to piles and piles of actual real, empirical evidence from actual reality and all known facts. So why do you want people who have shot people with guns to live by schools? Is it so they can shoot children from their front porches? Because you would prefer that they don’t go into the schools to shoot children? Is that why?

People who support the SORs are immoral, un-American harassers. They should all answer those questions.

I never knew what was going on with registrants before I was convicted. The news made it sound like a sex offender was someone who had no bounds and couldn’t help themselves. I think politicians generally don’t know any registrants or their individual situations. Of course they may be acquainted with a registrant and not know It. Why should they? Obvious nobody believes a good guy can commit a sex crime, especially against a child or that if you commit a crime you won’t commit it again. The thought causes cognitive dissonance and is against the way humans, at least in this country, are wired from childhood, with the good Bambi, Bad Ol’ Wolf paragons, and that is a challenge to overcome. Another conundrum is that we expose ourselves to danger and being misunderstood if we expose our status, but no one can create more realistic and filled-in images of registrants other than registrants themselves.