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Do Career Offenders Live Near You? Florida’s Registry Offers New Search Capabilities
June 10, 2025
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) today launched Florida’s enhanced Career Offender registry on FDLE’s website, with new neighborhood search features and maps. The Career Offender registry is a public safety application that gives the public access to search for court-designated violent offenders throughout Florida.
The new Florida Career Offender registry is located here.
“I encourage citizens to bookmark FDLE’s website and use our online registries regularly. The Career Offender registry, like the Sexual Offender registry, is an absolute necessity for your safety toolbox. We have nearly 20, 0000 Florida career offender felons on the registry. Knowing the locations of these folks can help keep Florida’s citizens, their families and visitors safe,” said
The public can search for career offenders by name, region, county, city, and address. The online Career Offender registry’s neighborhood searches can be tailored to find registrants residing within a one-quarter mile radius to within a five-mile radius of an address, and the results can be displayed on an interactive map as well as in a comprehensive list format.
FDLE launched the original online Career Offender registry in 2003, under the Florida Career Offender Registration Act. The registry at the time included approximately 400 registrants. Today, the registry includes nearly 20,000 Florida career offenders
Career offenders are individuals who have been designated by a court as a habitual violent felony offender, a violent career criminal, or a three-time violent felony offender under s. 775.084, or as a prison releasee reoffender under s. 775.082(9), AND who are serving or have been released from sanction in the State of Florida on or after July 1, 2002.
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5 Responses to “Do Career Offenders Live Near You? Florida’s Registry Offers New Search Capabilities”
I had the same problem as Lisa mentioned. Search parameters don’t work. I tried multiple times with multiple distances (up to max of 4 miles) and nothing….but it did seem to supply every other repeat offender in every other part of the county, from one end to the other. Pages and pages, but nothing in Molino area that I could see. I tried and had the same result with my daughter’s address in Myrtle Grove and we all know the grove is full but it wouldn’t sort for her surrounding area.
The search parameters don’t work. I put in 1/2 mile from my address, then 1 mile and got the same people; many of them are much farther away than the parameters i put in. I can tell from the last known addresses that some of those listed are more than 5 miles away. Plus, there’s no way of knowing the date of the offenders’ status listed on the site. Not very helpful at all.
This registry started in 2003 with 400 people on it and 22 years later there are 20,000 people on it. It apparently does not deter felons from reoffending.
I looked and there are 17 career offenders in Santa Rosa County. An overwhelming majority of them haven’t been convicted of a crime in over a decade. A few of them its been 20+ years. One guy is reported DEAD. Only one person on it had commited a crime this decade in 2022. Apparently, once you get on this thing, no amount of time passing will get you off it.
I think it’s sad we don’t have enough community and mental health resources for sure. Taking a look at the map, I definitely recognize a few of the people in different areas I’ve searched. Several of them aren’t malicious, they just need or needed help. Some folks are definitely repeat offenders with no shame, but.
This should be a great tool. However, am I wrong in thinking anyone that is a habitual offender as defined above, should not be free or in the public at all. It’s sad that we don’t have enough prisons/punishments for these folks.