Sex Offenders and Sexual Predators

Thank goodness for small politicians and loud causes. Sex offenders and predators belong to the State of Florida. Politicians in counties and cities need to be more concerned with road repair, maintenance of replacement of public buildings and funding of city or county services.

With every jurisdiction in the State coming up with different restrictions on sex offenders and predators the job of the Department of Corrections Probation Officer assigned will become almost impossible.

As a former DOC Probation Officer with a caseload of sex offenders I can assure you that not all sex offenders are equal in their crimes, some who were charged with serious crimes pled down to lower level crimes and other offenders were so purely evi, you wanted to ensure your firearm was with you at all times.

With the new proposed criteria of having local police check their status more often than the State's requirements I cannot help but wonder: If the subject commits another sex crime, has the local jurisdiction supposedly watching him or her now assumed at least some liability from the state. Who will the attorneys for the victim come after now.

And most of these sex offenders WILL recommit more sex offenses.

Are these jurisdictions who intend to use their police to follow sex offenders prepared to hire more police officers or do they intend to act like the state and continue to increase the workload without proper funding?

When you read in the paper that the Florida Department of Law Enforcement says X number of predators and Y number of sex offenders live within a particular jurisdiction remember this: sex offenders lie, they change their locations without notification and they are ALWAYS positioning themselves in their search for new victims. In addition, they also move from other states without following the rules of the state they left or the one they moved into.

I might also add that the ACLU is surely waiting in the wings to initiate lawsuits regarding the unequal application of restrictions on a class of people in this state.

In my opinion, if citizens are not satisfied with the Department of Corrections and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement they should make their feelings known the their state representatives and state senators to have the laws changed.