A home for sexual offenders has neighbors up in arms
From the Tallahassee Democrat
Nestled in a pocket of land surrounded by the I-10 overpass and Mission Road sits the Moon Lane neighborhood.
A dirt road that runs along the interstate wall leads to several mobile homes hidden behind a barricade of drooping trees and unkempt foliage. Cornered off and relatively quiet, homes are scattered around the unpaved road with no real boundaries.
But, residents of the area are beginning to draw a line in the sand. Neighbors on Moon Lane are fighting to remove a rehabilitation home for sexual offenders from the area.
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Um OK, just listening to 2 seconds of these backwoods Tallahassee rednecks spew off idiocy about the situation was enough for me to dismiss them completely. So aside from battling the idiot money hungry politicians, we also have to battle the idiot Joe public out there who, in their defense, are only spewing out the stupidity and falsehoods fed to them by the media and the govt. So we’re fighting a battle on every front unfortunately.
“She says in April she began receiving frequent notifications of predators moving into the area, and logged into the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s database to find 18 registered sex offenders living just up the road in a single home.“
“I get that they have the right to live here. I get that they have to live 1,000 (feet) from a school,” Griffin said, “but you wanted to saturate this one whole area, and not have the common decency to warn anybody?”
Umm, didn’t she just say she was getting notices and saw the website? Doesn’t that constitute getting warning? And unless someone actually approaches her or her children, why would she feel unsafe?
“Shauna Griffin is one of those neighbors. She says in April she began receiving frequent notifications of predators moving into the area, and logged into the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s database to find 18 registered sex offenders living just up the road in a single home”
so. I’m confused ?? is this a home for Sex OFFENDERS or Sexual PREDATORS??
this is the problem, to the media and uneducated citizens dont know the difference in designations
Yes – this is an issue. The names are used interchangeably
The hysteria surrounding sex offenders is abundantly clear but the needs of the many sex offenders outweigh the needs of the few residents who ARE FREE to move elsewhere. Sex offenders have been left too few options of where they may live. The offended residents are victims of the state laws and restrictions placed on sex offenders not victims of the sex offenders benefitted by a place to live
This is a very good point, Gene
A lady who was protesting the homeless registered citizens in Miami said that she ” understands that they (registered citizens) have rights, but that she also has the right to be safe ”
That quote by her on TV news blew me away, because it shocks me how people don’t understand constitutional rights. She was half right, I give her that, but the right to be safe extends fully to every citizen regardless. In other words, all her rights are all of our rights as well. There is no half baking with the U.S. constitution no matter what’s your situation.
Half right=wrong.
You’re right.