72% of the City of Miami’s unsheltered homeless are on the sex offender registry!
Last week we wrote about a new law going into effect in the City of Miami (Florida) that allows for the immediate arrest of homeless registrants in the city. (READ: https://floridaactioncommittee.org/miami-makes-people-homeless-and-then-arrests-them-for-being-homeless/).
FAC sent a letter to the Miami-Dade Homeless Trust asking what provisions are being made for the homeless registrants who cannot live (according to State Statute and County Ordinance) in the overwhelming portion of the City. (READ: https://floridaactioncommittee.org/fac-letter-to-miami-dade-homeless-trust/)
We are yet to receive a response to our letter, but given the fact that all our outreach to the Miami-Dade Homeless Trust, Miami-Dade County Commissioners, and City of Miami Commissioners have gone unanswered, we are not surprised.
To add a bit of context to the problem (and possibly some insight into why the lawmakers and government entity don’t seem to care about this issue), here’s an important statistic: 72% of the unsheltered are registrants. According to statistics published in a recent article, there are currently 605 unsheltered in the City of Miami. 437 of them are on the registry!
Here they are: Miami Homeless Registrants … and yes, all the absconded, confined and deceased have been removed from the count.
That’s nearly three-quarters of the homeless people in the City of Miami are on the registry! The Miami-Dade Homeless Trust has an annual budget of $137.8 Million and a staff of 26 people! With all those resources they’ve done ZERO to address this problem?
Please take a moment to share this information with the local media!
OH… We can house at least a few hundred overnight by REPEALING THE LAUREN BOOK CHILD SAFETY ORDINANCE!!!
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Have emailed over 600 hope this helps the outreach!!!
Keep emailing those so they can not say we did not tell them!! It is being noticed I can say it is!
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https://prismreports.org/2026/07/29/miami-encampment-ban-homeless/
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https://www.wlrn.org/government-politics/2026-07-22/miami-commissioners-to-vote-on-ordinance-making-it-easier-to-arrest-homeless-people-sleeping-outdoors
I have emailed other organizations to let them know about this please email let them know the truth
Miami Housing Organizations
* Miami-Dade County Homeless Trust
* [email protected]
* homelesstrust.org this another contact Executive Director
Circle of Brotherhood
* [email protected]
* circleofbrotherhoodmiami.org
TaskForce for Ending Homelessness
* [email protected]
* taskforcefl.org
Lutheran Services Florida (LSF)
* [email protected]
* lsfnet.org
New Hope C.O.R.P.S.
* [email protected]
* newhopecorp.org
Miami Homes For All
* [email protected]
* miamihomesforall.org
Chapman Partnership
* [email protected]
* chapmanpartnership.org
Miami Democratic Socialists of America
* [email protected]
* miamidsa.org
Lauren Book’s personal story is undeniably tragic. No one should minimize the abuse she experienced. But that tragedy, by itself, does not answer whether today’s sex offender registry laws or residency restrictions are effective, constitutional, or supported by evidence.
Over the years, Lauren Book has built much of her public career around these policies. Whether you agree or disagree with her positions, it’s fair to question the laws she has championed and the real-world outcomes they’ve produced.
When someone has spent years advocating for a particular approach, it can become difficult to separate deeply held beliefs from evidence that may challenge them. As the saying goes, if you’ve been drinking the Kool-Aid long enough, you may start believing it’s wine.
The debate should be about facts, data, and whether these laws actually improve public safet not about anyone’s personal tragedy. We need to have a good chat sometime.
There are legislators and those who help make laws starting to have family members on the registry the narrative is changing