FL: Is Profit Driving Florida’s Sex Offense Registry?

Source: thecrimereport.org 1/27/22

In 2019, I was falsely accused of a petty theft in Broward County, Florida, despite living over 1,100 miles from the alleged offense and having no transportation.

I was arrested by my local police agency and spent 24 days incarcerated, including the six days it took to transport me from Ohio to Florida so I could bond out and mount my defense. But Florida delayed my release in order to force me to register on the public sex offense registry.

I have never lived in the state of Florida, nor have I ever desired to reside in that state. I briefly traveled to Florida in the past to engage in a peaceful demonstration against the primary proponent of residency restriction laws that harm returning citizens and drive up homeless rates in South Florida.

I had also traveled briefly to the state to hand out Christmas care packages to those made homeless by the Miami municipal residency restriction ordinance named after the same proponent I had protested the year before. Given a choice, I would not have spent even a single day in Florida.

But now, due to this false accusation that was recently dropped (through a nolle prosequi), I am currently listed on the state’s public sex offense registry for life.

I decided to look a little deeper.

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Database money from the ubiquitous database market. The machine is darn useful, but its use will result in civil war. Far more crime has be enabled by than disabled by its broad unfettered application. Data collection by gov agencies has historically been an touchy issue with the people and Sex offender registration helped clear the way for mass collectors by lending benign benevolence to our database driven infrastructure.

You are an inspiration, Derek!! Please never stop uncovering and exposing their corrupt motives!

Nice article to bring to light about Florida’s registry scheme, but the article isn’t poignant enough about the connection to the monies. I followed the Orlando Weekly link in the article and found the following:

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U.S. Department of Justice’s Sex Offender Management Assistance Program offers grants to states to aid in compliance with registry requirements. The law states, “In allocating funds under this subsection, the director may consider the annual number of sex offenders registered in each eligible state’s monitoring and notification programs.”
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and later in the article:

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Florida, with its reported 36,037 offenders, is near the top of the list nationally.
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Remember, this is for SORNA compliant states. That would exclude states with higher number of registrants such as California with nearly over 108,00 registrants, which California is a non-SORNA compliant state.

Hmmmm… I wonder if this evidence of ballooning the registry on purpose to receive more money can be used by ACSOL as part of their fraud aspect to the registry? If so, then they really should use the 2005 Orlando Weekly article detailing that also the lack of immediate transparency of removing dead registrants from the registry is falsely giving the impression of how many live registrants there are in the state to properly monitor for both law enforcement and the public.

Excellent work Derek!

Watch your back and stay out of Florida!

Yes it is and it is not only the registry in Florida.