Miami-Dade Homeless Sex Offender Encampment Surpasses 200 People
The torture started in 2006. The cities of Miami-Beach and Miami got into a war of sex offenders because Miami Beach’s ordinance drove registrants without anyplace to live over to the mainland. Miami countered by passing their own ordinance to drive them back. The result, sex offenders couldn’t find anyplace to live and were living under the Julia Tuttle Causeway; the bridge that connects Miami Beach to Miami.
Around 2009, the shame of the homeless sex offenders pouring out from under the bridge began to permeate the tourist industry, so the bridge was fenced off and the inhabitants moved to another small pocket of availability on the corner of NE 79th Street and 10th Avenue in a neighborhood called Shorecrest. They also passed a county-wide ordinance of 2500 feet from schools.
Unfortunately, the unsightly colony of 100+ homeless taking to the street corner in Shorecrest caused neighborhood residents to demand a solution, so Commissioner Marc Sarnoff installed a couple spring toys into a vacant lot and called it a “pocket park” for the express purpose of driving out the registrants from that area.
The sex offender shuffle next brought them to a trailer park area off NW 27th Avenue in Miami, but after lobbyist (and Chairman of the Miami-Dade Homeless trust) Ron Book claimed there was a school too close, they were evicted and now living alongside the railroad tracks at the corner of NW 71st Street and 36th Court, in a warehouse district with no access to plumbing or sanitation.
As of today, the number of human beings living homeless at the encampment has broken 200 people!
To see for yourself go to: https://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/searchNeighborhood.do?actionPerformed=neighborhoodSearchMain
Enter 7100 NW 36th Court as the address, Miami as the City and 1/4 mile as the radius.
Many of these people are not even on probation any longer! There are several in their 70’s! It’s inhumane, it’s unproductive and nobody should allow this to happen in a civilized country!
If you feel as strongly as we do; we recommend you contact Miami-Dade County’s Mayor, Carlos Jimenez, at mayor@miamidade.gov or 305-375-5071
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I’m impressed, I must say. Really rarely do I encounter a blog that’s both educative and entertaining, and let me tell you, you have hit the nail on the head. Your idea is outstanding; the issue is something that not enough people are speaking intelligently about. I am very happy that I stumbled across this in my search for something relating to this.
When will FAC realize that playing nice and sending respectful emails won’t resolve this issue? It is time to be more hands-on in your approach. So long as you think playing pattycake with the Books and act afraid to challenge those who have pushed this crap for almost an entire decade, I expect no changes no matter what i choose to write in the emails. Has FAC been there trying to get those at the camp to speak out?
We do go down there regularly and have several active members who live there.
We are not merely writing letters, we actually sued the county over this ordinance. That lawsuit is pending in the appeals court and will take some time.
I’ve been saying this since probably 2011.. Move out of FloriDUH, and forget about it. We can live anyplace we damn well want to here in Socal.
That works for those who have nothing holding them back, but some of us have children here or aging parents they need to care for, a business or other commitments.
Miami has a large Jewish population-a lot of Holocaust survivors, have the homeless S.O”s all start wearing yellow stars of Davids on their clothing-I GUARANTEE THE S%#@T WILL HIT THE FAN!
This is what residency restrictions have brought us to: http://t.co/nqbz9Nh3VB
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