BREAKING: Volusia County Solves Absolutely Nothing with Sex Offender Residency Restriction Hike—Now Has More Homeless Offenders Wandering the Streets
Well, well, well… would you look at that? A couple of years ago Volusia County decided it was a great idea to expand residency restrictions for registered citizens from 1,000 feet to 1,500 feet. Because obviously, 1,000 feet just wasn’t safe enough, right?
And what happened next? A massive drop in crime? Nope. More homelessness and less ability for law enforcement to even find the people they’re supposed to be “monitoring.”
But hey, we at FAC are just the people who’ve been shouting this from the rooftops for years. What do we know?
Volusia County now boasts the ninth-highest number of homeless registrants in the state. Congratulations! That’s quite the leaderboard you’re climbing. Deputies now get to play hide-and-seek with transient registrants who don’t have a legal place to live thanks to a policy change that—shocker!—backfired.
According to this article, even County Councilman Don Dempsey is scratching his head, saying, “It’s kind of alarming we have that many.” Kind of? KIND OF? At least Councilman Dempsey didn’t vote for the ordinance a couple of years ago when it was enacted. What did the rest of the County Counsel think was going to happen when you push people into the margins of society, close every door to housing, and expect them to just… disappear?
One “solution” being floated? Amending the ordinance. Great, why not getting rid of it, since it worked so well?
So to recap the logic:
Restrict housing options
Remove individuals from stable living situations
Increase homelessness
Make it harder for law enforcement to track them
Increase felony charges due to impossible compliance
And this is supposed to increase public safety? But go on Volusia, keep pretending these laws are working.
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Mary
I will 🗳 vote
Here is WESH’s news story
https://www.wesh.com/article/volusia-county-ordinance-harder-track-down-homeless-sex-offenders/65195841
Wow! They are proposing housing for registrants! I guess things have to turn into chaos before people wake up and realize their magical homeless-causing solutions are not so magical.
We also sent a copy of From Rage to Reason by Emily Horowitz to every Volusia council member before the final meeting took place.
Our FAC members fought this battle when the ordinance was introduced by council member Danny Robbins.
Council member Don Dempsey, defense attorney and former prosecutor, warned that Robbins’ proposed ordinance would come with increased homelessness.
https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/local/volusia/2024/04/03/sexual-offenders-and-predators-in-volusia-face-stricter-distance-rules/73191902007/
Meeting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7dxmDqQWy0
Yeah, but felony convictions due to impossible compliance would result in incarceration. And people forced to register would then be placed in prison where they really want us. Did anyone consider that?
So true. What they will probably try next is to just incarcerate everyone for life. They way they keep expanding the laws, fairly soon there won’t be anyone left to vote for them.
i will vote
You can’t teach somebody something when they already know everything. Likewise, you can’t argue with uneducated blow-hards pining for political postures. This is why we use the court of law and not the court of public opinion for most matters.