Amended Complaint Filed in Miami-Dade SORR Challenge
News Regarding Florida Sex Offender Registry Laws
An Amended Complaint was filed this week in the Miami-Dade Sex Offender Residency Restriction challenge.
The original action, which was brought in 2014 by the Florida Action Committee and Individuals who were legislated into homelessness by the Miami-Dade Ordinance which prevented registered sex offenders from living within 2500 feet of a school, was dismissed by the trial court. The ACLU appealed the dismissal to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, which reversed!
Now, the Complaint has been amended to conform to the appellate opinion and to add four additional plaintiffs.
A copy of the Amended Complaint Can be found here:
Does v. Miami-Dade – SORR – Amended Complaint
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Also, how is it people were forced to move from Shorecrest after the “mini park” was created? Did the county not consider that encampment to be a “previous existing address”? I wonder because I seem to recall reading in the complaint that one person was also required to move out of Homestead because a school was opened after he moved there.
So here is the next burning question. When was the new law ‘passed?” The old laws date from 2005, but the current law was “amended” in 2010. It superseded and eliminated the old municipal laws and replaced them, right. Just like the 2004 state law modified/replaced/moved the old 1997 law. Did the old law only apply to the unincorporated county and if so, would it be an ex post facto law for anyone convicted between 2005 and 2009, IF the chose to move to one of the towns where their old law had been tossed out? Were there any towns in Miami-Dade that did not have a residency restriction law prior to 2010, like maybe Homestead?
Thank you for your hard work
What would be the restriction post this? Any affect anywhere else here?