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Sex Offender Registration: Is It Punishment?

By Ron Chapman

Florida statute section 943.0435 states that sexual offenders must register with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), and Florida statute section 775.21 states that sexual predators must likewise register with FDLE.  Registration requirements include such things as having one's picture posted on the Internet, notifying the Sheriff's office when changing addresses (for the remainder of one's entire life), and having a driver's license which indicates that the driver is a registered sex offender or predator. Sex offender registration statutes are fairly recent, however, and some registered sex offenders have argued that they should not have to register with FDLE because they committed their crimes before the sex offender statute was passed into law in the 1990's...continue to full post

Full post as published by Palm Beach Criminal Defense Blog on June 05, 2008 (boomark / email).