TALLAHASSEE, FLA. — A state lawmaker from Central Florida has filed a bill that would make it a crime for registered sex offenders to use a remote control drone to spy on kids or take their pictures. Senator Dorothy Hukill of Port Orange says predators are required to stay away from schools, playgrounds and other places where children gather… but there’s nothing in the law about drones.
“What they can’t do personally, they can do with a drone,” she said. “They can do it pretty unobtrusively without people being aware or knowing what they’re doing.” Hukill admits she’s never heard of a case where a sex offender used a drone to stalk a child, but she contends it’s bound to happen eventually. She says her bill is all about prevention. Article
Since no documented cases exist how can anyone be sure this is absolutely bound to happen? Ever heard of self fulfilling prophecy? Maybe up until she said it no person had seriously thought of the idea. Also I must chuckle at the notion that this is only aimed at child related instances because I think an adult targeting another adult could be far worse. Then there’s the fact that most new crimes are not committed by known individuals proving how uninformed law makers are.
Only the sharia law crack heads in the other stupid state could come up with yet another junk law like this.
Of course sex offenders are going to fly their drones to schools and playgrounds. Those are the only places children can be found. Maybe we should include sex offenders who might take pictures of kids using their satellites. Someone might try it some day… It’s all about prevention. Dorothy Hukill is a moron.
My nomination for the next annual ‘Shitake Awards’ goes to Ms. Hukill
“What they can’t do personally, they can do with a drone,” she said. “They can do it pretty unobtrusively without people being aware or knowing what they’re doing.”
Are these drones fitted with claws capable of snatching children off playgrounds and carrying them off into the horizon to their likely demise? Without anyone noticing???
She needs to lower her dosage and get to work on passing rational bills that will improve their community.
That lawmaker has some deep seeded secrets he’s projecting onto registered citizens. He was sick enough to conjure this up, it’s time to lock him up before he hurts a child.
Unbelievable.. Just unbelievable…Please Florida give me all that money you’re wasting on bills and laws similar to this … The song by David Bowie & Pat Metheny ‘This is Not America’. =fits.
Florida is just full of freaking stupid and crazy legislatures. I use to think that southern inbreeding was a myth, but this just proves it must exist. She is all about prevention, but no one has ever heard about a case. This is about as legal as when Wisconsin outlawed registrants taking photos of kids in public. Just last month their appeals court ruled that law unconstitutional.
Using that logic, all sex offenders should be restricted from owning shovels, for they might dig a tunnel under a child’s house. Never been done before, but we have to protect the children.
Oh, registrants can’t have any stamps, for they may mail a letter to a child.
Don’t forget to restrict answering the phone at home, for a child might misdial his number and the two may talk, putting the child at risk.
Ahh, so many restrictions left to implement and so little time before the next election. Remember, if it protects just one child from contact with a sex offender, it will be well worth it.
The more unconstitutional burdens they lay on offenders, the sooner the courts will step in and do what they should have done long ago. Of course not the Floriday Supreme Court, for they come from the same breeding stock.
Yep once these courts allow even one unconstitutional law pass scrutiny its a domino effect after that. A barrage of unconstitutional laws will follow. Thank god we here in cali don’t live under a communist, sharia law regiment that is the Florida gov. I feel for those people. I can’t even fathom having to abide by all their different laws. Can’t even drive down a street without worrying if your to close to something just for one thing to many to go in detail. Maybe a tsunami will wipe it off the map some day. They sure deserve it.
Once again, the state of Florida takes steps to assure it maintains the most ludicrous and absurd state in the union. Is anyone really surprised at anything that happens there? I for one can not wait for that entire state to be covered by the ocean as global warming melts the ice caps…the sooner the better!
It’s not a crime to photograph anything in public view, even kids can be photographed. I plan to put some of our Leaders on t-shirts with a message.
Find out where these scum bags live and then post it around the county with a message that says this person wants to take a way your gun rights.
They cry like babies when their Address goes public. Also another weapon is to go where they speak to the public and laugh out loud at what they have to say. They hate that too. it makes them look bad.
I’m around campaigns and get this info from their campaign Managers.
THE DRONE KILLER
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Cyber-Nazi FaceBook and other companies like Amazon have invested a lot in drone research. Maybe the time has come for the big roll-out of the FaceBook drones. And just like Facebook banning registrants from their service and also trying to get the rest of the internet to do the same with Prop 35/SB 448 and the same or worse crap in other states to make up for their providing of a platform for the sexualization of teenagers and its founder having an affinity for cyber-bullying as seen with FaceMash, where Zuckerberg hacked the pics of girls/women at Harvard and used them for a ‘hot or not’ site, perhaps FaceBook now wants people to have big smiles on their face when they see a FB drone in the sky, so to create a false sense of security they are furthur scapegoating and attacking the rights of registrants in the drone-zone, to make up for the inevitable non-registrant fratboy-mentality abuse of drones that will occur. FaceBook is an insidious company and I would not put this latest version of registrant-scapegoating past them. FaceBook must be stopped from being allowed to have drones, period. Look how these scapegoating cyber-Nazi’s behave in the cyber realm. Do we really want the same crap going on in the skies above us? As in Nazi Germany, it all starts with going after the ‘sex offenders’. With Amazon, I could see drone technology really being about just dropping off packages more efficiently to customers. For FaceBook, their drones will start off as being about providing more of the world with internet connectivity, but soon will morph in harmful fascist spying by FaceBook, in the name of sex trafficking. If FaceBook is allowed to have drones, I think drones are a big fail for society. I hope FaceBook is not behind this new law in Florida. The kooks in Florida worship John Walsh already and Walsh’s comment on registrants having their anuses exploded is the standard for Florida’s attitude regarding the rights of registrants. I say ‘registrants’ because surely Walsh and his cohorts still hold in high regard those who have committed sex crimes but are not registrants like Mark Foley, Lunsford and Son , Dennis Hastert ( who a few days ago took a plea that excluded examination of sex crime accusations, so I guess he can’t be forced to register, even if a judge wanted that, which knowing Florida and the Mark Foley coddling, they probably would not) and the man himself….John Walsh.
goletagal wrote”Elementary School Teacher Took Inappropriate Photos of Young Girls…”
Inappropriate is the ‘key’ word there. The police must have thought the pics were inappropriate to arrest him. If anyone, registrant or non-registrant alike is inappropriately taking photos of children, it is already a crime and they should be arrested. Drone or not. There is not a need to criminalize normal behavior of any type. Drone or not. Although my jury is still out on if drones, in their totality, are a good idea, I am leaning against them.
A small correction is in order. Dennis Hastert is from Illinois, not Florida. So it was a Federal Court in Chicago where Hastert took the plea deal, not Florida. I guess if it was Florida state charges, he would not have been convicted of anything, or even charged at all, like Foley.
Breaking News: The Department of Transportation will announce a plan that would require people to register their drones, a source confirmed to ABC News.
A news conference is scheduled for Monday in which Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and Federal Aviation Administrator Michael Huerta will make a safety announcement regarding the use of unmanned aircraft systems. A task force would be created to implement the program.
The plan could go into effect possibly by Christmas, according to the source.
The Cops are just blowing wind. If you can see it outdoors you can photograph it, no matter what class you come from.
http://www.krages.com/phoright.htm
ab wrote “Additionally even if something was taken in a private place leaving the determination of appropriateness to an investigator or prosecutor is ridiculous. Laws should not be open to interpretation within the realm of what…”
I was using the term ‘inappropriately’ interchangeably with ‘illegal’, as I believe the author of the article was as well.
Enemy predator drone inbound