UPDATE: Miami Sex Offender Homeless Encampment Cleared Out

This morning, at around 9AM, the last of the homeless sex offenders living along the railroad tracks in a Hialeah warehouse district, have been evicted. NBC6 was there to report: https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Police-Move-Remaining-Homeless-Sex-Offenders-Out-Of-Encampment-482451171.html According to police, the registrants were cooperative and there were no issues or arrests. As far as where they will pop up next… we will shortly find out where

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Update: Miami-Dade Encampment

Registrants are still at the Miami-Dade Encampment. Some, because their GPS monitoring will trigger if they leave the area (probation has them designated to) and they don’t want to violate probation and go back to prison for that. Others, because they realize there’s noplace for them to go and they will be violating the overnight camping ordinance wherever they are,

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Unintended Consequences: Sex Offenders in Motels

Excerpt: “Increasingly, many law enforcement officials and attorneys argue that this is what society essentially asked for: Because most states and communities have imposed such strict limits on where released sex offenders can live (while still requiring them to live in the town where they committed their offense), often an offender’s only legal choice is to live on the margins

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