{"id":1242,"date":"2019-03-01T14:21:34","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T20:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2019-03-01T14:23:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T20:23:31","slug":"the-appeal-floridas-sex-offender-registry-proves-inescapable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/2019\/03\/01\/the-appeal-floridas-sex-offender-registry-proves-inescapable\/","title":{"rendered":"[The Appeal] Florida&#8217;s Sex Offender Registry Proves Inescapable"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"introduction-wrapper\">\n<h2><\/h2>\n<p>By Steven Yoder | March 1, 2019<\/p>\n<p>It was the kind of headline guaranteed to generate clicks even over the winter holidays and amid a federal government shutdown: \u201cNumber of Sex Offenders Living in Florida Is Growing,\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/f0c2a855928745fdba3713c630f1d6ed\"> warned<\/a> the Associated Press. In December, the Florida legislative auditor\u2019s office released a report noting that the number of people on the state\u2019s sex offender registry had expanded 53 percent since 2005, to about 73,000.<\/p>\n<p>But the report also contains this detail: 60 percent of those on the list live out of state, are in prison, or have been deported\u2014up from the 43 percent in those categories in the auditors\u2019 first report in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because Florida\u2019s registry increasingly scoops up anyone who has ever lived there or visited. Under state law, anyone with a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/offender.fdle.state.fl.us\/offender\/sops\/faq.jsf\">sex crime<\/a> in their past who comes to Florida for three days or more\u2014say, a long weekend at Disney World or a business conference\u2014has to visit a sheriff\u2019s office to get fingerprinted and photographed and turn over myriad other details. The state then publishes those and keeps these new registrants on its public list for a minimum of 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>Not only does that <a href=\"https:\/\/theappeal.org\/why-sex-offender-registries-keep-growing-even-as-sexual-violence-rates-fall\/\">artificially inflate<\/a> Florida\u2019s list, critics say\u2014it makes it impossible for those who have served a sentence and moved away to start over, even when their new home jurisdictions don\u2019t require them to be publicly listed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Read at <a href=\"https:\/\/theappeal.org\/floridas-sex-offender-registry-proves-inescapable\/\">The Appeal<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Steven Yoder | March 1, 2019 It was the kind of headline guaranteed to generate clicks even over the winter holidays and amid a federal government shutdown: \u201cNumber of Sex Offenders Living in Florida Is Growing,\u201d warned the Associated Press. In December, the Florida legislative auditor\u2019s office released a report noting that the number &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/2019\/03\/01\/the-appeal-floridas-sex-offender-registry-proves-inescapable\/\" class=\"more-link\">[The Appeal] Florida&#8217;s Sex Offender Registry Proves Inescapable<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":836,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sorn-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/836"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}