Such a waste of time and tax payer funds. Florida has a 5% recidivism rate on registrants. Use the money towards prevention, not registrant harassment.
http://www.wtvy.com/content/news/Florida-Sheriffs-Taskforce-Unveils-Results-of-its-2016-Sexual-Predator-Operation-373381541.html
Florida Sheriffs Taskforce Unveils Results of its 2016 Sexual Predator Operation
By Press Release |
Posted: Thu 11:58 AM, Mar 24, 2016
TALLAHASSEE, FL (WTVY) Today the Florida Sheriffs Association (FSA) Task Force released the results of Operation Predator, a strategic initiative that verified current locations and criminal backgrounds of the over 46,000 permanent sexual predator residents in the state. During this operation, deputies verified information of Florida’s sexual predator and offenders, including their addresses, registration violations, number of related warrants served through arrests and number of ancillary arrests made through this enforcement operation.
“Sexual offenses are a trauma we don’t want any family in any of our communities to experience,” said FSA President and Alachua County Sheriff Sadie Darnell. “Enforcing sexual predator policies is a high priority in order for Florida law officials to keep families safe.”
The following are the result of the two-week operation in February and March 2016:
- 1,409 total sexual predator address verifications
9,119 total sexual offender address verifications
19 total sexual predators arrested/charged for registration violation
112 total sexual offenders arrested/charged for registration violations
61 total related warrants served through arrests
62 total ancillary arrests made through this operation enforcement
“Operation Predator allows our Sheriffs Offices to better predict dangers that could potentially harm our children and community members,” said Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri and Chair of FSA’s Task Force. “The data found informs the public of possible threats and helps better prepare our task force to defend Florida residents.”
Operation Predator contributes to two of the FSA business operations goals: to protect Florida’s youth and to promote the activities of Sheriffs. The results of this task force operation have led to updated information being added to FDLE’s sexual offender and predator directory. The directory is located at offender.fdle.state.fl.us.
