That’s the term used when government authorities repeatedly move registered sex offenders from one place to another in order to circumvent residency restriction laws or appease complaining neighborhoods that have become “dumping grounds” for society’s outcasts.
It can come in the form of ordinances; one city increases it’s “buffer zone” to effectively banish registrants into the neighboring towns, which, in turn, requires the neighboring town to pass a similar ordinance to keep ’em moving.
It can come in the form of “creative” city planning; simply insert a “pocket park” in the middle of every area otherwise available to sex offenders and instantly turn it into another excluded zone.
It can also literally come in the form of shuffling registrants from location to location in order to circumvent the restriction. In Wisconsin, for example, an ordinance requires registration at any location an offender will be for 4 days. Since they can’t find compliant housing for registrants, the DOC simply rotates the offenders between 10 houses every three days. (SEE: http://www.wisn.com/news/governor-responds-to-12-news-investigation-on-homeless-sex-offenders/32654212).
While it does nothing to keep the children safe, costs taxpayers a lot of money and certainly destabilizes the offenders and makes it harder for them to find jobs and re-integrate into society, it complies with the law and I guess that’s all that matters… after all; “if it saves one child!”
THE STATE OF FLORIDA HAS ASKED US TO STATE…
Can’t find the actual video, but this article shows what I was saying before about gangs preying on young pre-teens and getting them involved in the violence. Again, these to me are the REAL predators folks need to be worried about. Not the adult men that go on adult websites looking for adults and get baited into responding to fake ads propped up by a “task force” funded by the federal govt.
http://www.fox30jax.com/news/news/local/state-prosecutor-talks-about-local-gangs/nk529/
Here’s the line for the drug bust in Jacksonville:
http://www.news4jax.com/news/narcotics-bust-at-southside-club-nets-16-arrests/32668934
Looking for the gang leader interview and will post once found.
Wow! Is this a “real” video back in 1988, or a parody? If it’s real, PLEASE take it down!!! Nobody should be exposed to such bad, bad, dancing and acting!! LOL
It’s a parody – It’s meant to emulate the “super bowl shuffle” that the Chicago Bears did in 1988. It’s supposed to be funny, which it kinda’ is, but it’s very sad in the sense that it’s so true.
How crazy is what probation is doing up there? The irony is that to circumvent the 4 day residency requirement and in circulating registrants amongst 10 different houses, they are actually exposing who they claim are dangerous to TEN TIMES the number of “potential victims”. It’s truly idiotic! It’s like the proximity ordinances in Brevard and Seminole; they don’t let you shop in the Walmart by your house, but make you travel to the Walmart on the other side of town because that’s not in a “buffer zone”. Well as one registrant pointed out; to get to the Walmart by his house he passes nothing, but to travel to the one on the other side of town he needs to pass a dozen schools, parks, playgrounds, etc. that he would not have to pass if not for the ordinance.
It’s truly idiotic!!!
That is truly amazing and idiotic indeed!! I have to say that Jacksonville (Duval County anyway), is very reasonable and actually an OK place for SO’s to live and I would suggest it as a place to come to for others in the same situation. I’ve had 2 probation officers so far and they have been fair and good to work with. Jax also does not have any of these crazy ordinances or “buffer zones” (yet–fingers crossed). Surrounding counties such as Nassau, St Johns, Clay, etc… do have crazy ordinances. My house is in Nassau Co and I can’t even live in my own house because they passed the 2500ft ordinance for everyone and it includes bus stops! There is one by my house, so there you go. But I’m glad I ended up in Duval Co. They have bigger fish to fry like gang violence and drug epidemics. Big drug bust just happened here (look at Jax news websites). Also I found a video on ones news website–it was an interview with a former gang leader who actually said they “targeted kids as young as 11 to recruit and get them to shoot other people.” The argument is that juveniles won’t get as severely punished as adults. Amazing. So again I ask, who are the REAL predators out there??? Gang leaders and drug dealers!!!!