Florida Sex Offender Law Is Subject to Constitutional Challenges

Sex offenders subject to Florida’s registration requirements may proceed with most of their claims that the latest amendments to the law make it intolerable and unconstitutional as applied to them, the Eleventh Circuit said.

Florida argued that the registrants’ claims were barred under the applicable statute of limitations, but the Oct. 21 opinion by Judge Andrew L. Brasher said all of their challenges except those against their classification as sex offenders may proceed.

Florida enacted the registry law in 1997, but over the years it has been amended over 12 times. It went from requiring a one-time registration and an ...