Disney World Vacation Leads to Fight Over Florida Sex Offender Law (An Out of State challenge)

Nov 11, 2020 | 15 comments

A Pennsylvania man has filed a challenge to a Florida law that has kept him on a sexual-offender registry after a 10-day family vacation to Disney World in 2015.

The man, identified in court documents as John Doe, reported to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office when he came to Florida because he was on a Pennsylvania registry at the time as a result of a child-pornography conviction in 2002. Doe was removed from the Pennsylvania registry in 2016 but has remained registered as a sex offender in Florida, according to a lawsuit filed last week in Leon County circuit court.The lawsuit, which names Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Rick Swearingen as a defendant, contends that the Florida law violates his constitutional privacy and due-process rights. In part, he pointed to information that FDLE posts online about registered sex offenders.[FAC NOTE: Val Jonas represents the Plaintiff]READ MORE OF THE ARTICLEREAD THE COMPLAINT: Out of State – Doe v Swearingen – Complaint

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Updated: December 6, 2020 — 5:45 pm

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