Walls closing in on Miami-Dade homeless sex offender issue.
I guess someone didn’t let Ron Book’s “Homeless Trust” know about the reprieve, because according to Local10 news, “workers from Miami-Dade’s Homeless Trust arrived Sunday night with police to give the offenders their eighth and final warning.”
In fact, the Deputy Mayor had given assurance to Attorney Jeffrey Hearne from Legal Services of Greater Miami, who had prepared to file an immediate legal challenge to the (now 4th) forced eviction of sex offenders, that enforcement action would not begin until AFTER the 10th, which gives the County some time to consider their options.
In the mean time, as word got out that the County planned to shuffle the couple hundred sex offenders to an intersection in Southwest Miami, protesters from that area already started coming out with signs, objecting to the resettlement of sex offenders in their neighborhood.
Officials still don’t seem to get it. The only way to prevent this from happening again is to kill the ordinance that is causing it.
In the meantime, politicians make ignorant comments, like, Deputy Mayor Maurice Kemp, who said “we even give them rental assistance — up to six months of rental assistance if they can find a compliant address,” That’s like telling a legless man you’ll give him free shoes and then wondering why he doesn’t thank you for them. Rental assistance would be great is there was anyplace for these people to rent!
In the meantime, Ron “conflict of interest” Book is fighting like hell to keep enforcing the ordinance because it’s named after his daughter.
We’ll see how this plays out in the coming days, but it’s looking more and more like its going to be played out in court.
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this may seem a little off topic, but, instead of fighting all of these cities, counties and states over ordinances, would it make more sense to go after washing DC and try to get the federal government involved in actually enforcing the federal laws the Adam Walsh Act (Tier registration , 1000 foot residency restrictions, time on registry.. etc??) i mean we have them pushing for states to follow the federal laws on immigration, why not try to have them push for the same for us ? or is that too big of a can of worms to open. These states have way to much control in this, and we can not expect equal treatment under the law the way it is now.
That will not impact sex offender residency restrictions, which is the issue here.
yea, i knew it was off topic for this particular thread, but, any thoughts on trying to push for a federal standard? with every state being different with residency restrictions and registration requirements, it would be great, IMO, to have a federal law that over sees all of this, take the control away at a local level.. does that make sense ?
why not attack the registry as a hate crime. hate crime defined prejudice against a group of people, Most of these laws was written out of anger and political gain. Bill Clinton and john welch had sex with a younger woman and admitted to it but not on the list. According to Ocala starbannerMark Lunsford had child porn on his computer but has failed to be convicted due to political control It makes the states’ attorney look bad. If I had the money I would hire these attorneys here at Florida action they are doing all they can to fight for us. 27 years ago my crime was and I took plea bargain way before the registry act came out in 1994. now got stuck on crap that did not exist at that time!!!