Florida’s New “Special Persons Registry”: I Hate It
On January 1, 2024, Florida enacted a new law, and I hate it. The so-called “Special Persons Registry” gives Florida police the right to make lists of residents based on their disability status, including those with formal diagnoses of Downs Syndrome, dementia, autism, and others. Supposedly this will “improve relations”
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Florida’s New “Special Persons Registry”: I Hate It

On January 1, 2024, Florida enacted a new law, and I hate it. The so-called “Special Persons Registry” gives Florida police the right to make lists of residents based on their disability status, in…

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@dramypsyd We have recent historical examples that demonstrate demographic registries are never a good thing, especially not in the hands of the police. Eff Florida.

@dramypsyd That's a bit unsettling. As long as it remains voluntary, then maybe it's not awful. But the potential for abuse concerns me. I have enough problems being misunderstood as it is, and I'm pretty high-functioning.

"This Lance guy reported a break in at his residence. Better send back up! He's on the autism list."

@dramypsyd Republicans are straight-up eugenicist.
@dramypsyd registries of "different people" do not tend to end well. FFS.
@dramypsyd I wonder if this will make it to SCOTUS. I feel like there would be something in the ADA that would prohibit this sort of registry, but I am absolutely 100% not a lawyer; I don't even play one on TV.
@dramypsyd the hell is this fascist bullshit

@dramypsyd If it is voluntary, it is merely creepy.

If it were to become mandatory, things would get scary PDQ.

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yellow Star patches soon enough

@dramypsyd what could go wrong?😖

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Wtaf? How is it that terrible ideas have such a long shelf life in our world? 😡

@dramypsyd @astrid It reads like doublespeak.

@dramypsyd The thing that's so frustrating and heartbreaking here is the desperate, touching, irrational faith of the families of disabled people, especially children, supporting this law in the belief that if the police only *knew* that their loved one had an impairing condition, the police would be *less* likely to open fire on them.

And not that the cops might be *more* likely to overreact because of their prejudice against the mentally ill or developmentally delayed.