UPDATED CALL TO ACTION: Brevard County. Oppose proposed ordinance
[FAC NOTE: This is turning on absurd. Now businesses will be able to order persons forced to register can’t go within 1000 feet of their business?!?!]
As it stands, any person convicted of sex offenses involving minors cannot live within 1,000 feet of a school, child care facility, park or playground. The county’s current ordinance only states offenders cannot be within 1,000 feet from a school, daycare or playground. According to this article, County Commissioner John Tobias is hopeful that list will soon include some local businesses. “It’s an ordinance at the county level. State has a buffer and we’ve expanded that,” he said.
“It would give law enforcement the ability to arrest one of these offenders or predators who are within that 1,000 foot buffer from the business,” Tobias said. [The new ordinance would create a] new voluntary registry, certifying their business is a place where children regularly congregate, which would restrict sexual offenders and sexual predators from coming within 1,000 feet of the business. Opting in is free for a business.
[FAC NOTE: Please take action]
UPDATED: If you are near Brevard and would like to attend the meeting tomorrow, July 21, 2020, it will take place at 9:00 AM at the Brevard County Government Center,2725 Judge Fran Jamieson Way (at Stadium Parkway),Viera, FL 32940
For those of you who have the time between now and Tuesday morning, please send an email to the commissioners listed below (or one email to all) stating your opposition to this proposed ordinance:
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I am opposed to this new ordinance because of the inconvenience that it may cause some folks. These folks have may a mistake. They have paid their dues. The will be persecuted for the rest of their lives. I know you are saying I don’t care…but think of a couple of instances…
What if your doctor’s office was within 1,000 feet of this business?
What if your pharmacy was within 1,000 feet of this business?
What if you wanted to take your grandkids for a treat and that place was within 1,000 feet of this business?
What if you OWNED a business that was within 1,000 feet of this business?
What if your house was within 1,000 feet of this business?
We could do what if’s all day…
What if one of YOUR family members became a sex offender or predator…how would this affect YOUR FAMILY?
Have a blessed day…
dave
How the hell do we even know where these zones are? What I now have to figure out how to get from point A to B and go around. Can’t walk past? What if my business lays next door to one? What if my family is in there they drop me off down the road and they are attacked so now they assume responsibility of hiring a bouncer to protect my family cause they take my right todo so. So what’s next doctors close the door on us. It’s a bit harsh ARREST. After 25 years… Can’t wait to ARREST someone and remove them from their family’s so we can fulfill law and order. Sound to me the fucking sherif also doesn’t need access to this list along with the public they are talking about harming us and taking us to a very dangerous place To be attacked… so who protects my kids dad? Not the sheriff. We are not free when we are put on a list for people to extort. Here s an unprotected class of citizens make you career based off their past here’s the list. This is a “safe zone” come the fuck on 99 percent of sex crimes are being committed by first time offenders. But people can now advertise at my expense they are “safe” think about this they are gonna allow public companies to promote by taking away my freedom.
That’s exactly why I don’t agree with police department only registries. They’ll still be able to do shit like this even without a public registry. No registries, period.
You are 100%…no, 150%…correct. Once a debt is paid, it’s paid. “Bill collectors’ are no longer wanted or needed.
In the interest of time this is the draft letter that will go out: https://floridaactioncommittee.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Letter-To-Brevard-County-Commissioners-07202020.pdf
This letter. Wow!
I respectfully submit that
We should allow this silly BS to pass into law. – This would be low hanging fruit, and a successful lawsuit could result in enough publicity to bring the craziness of proximity laws to the general public’s attention (Thereby making it them much easier to overturn statewide).
We should stop trying to cherry pick people to get off the registry. There is strength in numbers (even if those numbers are faked by the state).
Look, the more absurd these laws get, and the bigger our numbers grow, the more sympathy and support from the community at large.
We must let the haters dig their own graves, so to speak.
Just my 2 cents.
These laws are easy to enact and enforce, much harder to defend against and reverse.
That’s the realization I came to, after previously subscribing to the “make the laws crazier and make more people register” school of thought.
I am a registered citizen in Louisiana. We already have these exact laws that prohibit Tier 2 & 3 from being withing 1000 feet of many places. I cannot go to a certain auto parts store because it is too close to a school. I cannot go to my old bank for the same reason. I cannot drive down the Interstate at 60mph through town because it passes 850 feet from a school. I therefore must exit, drive through residential neighborhoods at 20mph, then get back on the Interstate after having complied with the 1000 foot school buffer zone. Technically, I cannot even go to my local police office to update my registration because it is 775 feet from a daycare. The law also makes Tier 2 & 3 stay away from a moving school bus, but the schools are NOT willing to provide registered sex offender the school bus schedules so we will know where NOT to be. Last year a legislature had a bill to include that 1000 buffer zone to home schools. I contacted him and asked him if the list of homeschool locations would be supplied to every registered SO in the state… he promptly withdrew his bill.
So, my advice is NOT to allow this law to happen and then fight it afterwards. In Louisiana, it is already in place and no one is willing, or able, to do a darn thing about it. Fight the proposal before it becomes law. Draw up maps of the buffer zones to show politicians the idiocy of it all. Ask John Tobias if he would support an ordinance from any business requesting that Jews not be allowed within 1000 feet. The nazis believed the Jews were the source of all crime and future crimes in pre-war Germany. Ask John Tobias what is next… buffer zones for Christians? Gays? African Americans? Alcoholics? Gun owners? Democrats? Republicans? If this ordinance passes, then it opens the flood gate of a buffer zone for any group deemed “undesirable” by the governmen.
Wow!!!
I feel naive.
I apologize, and I lend my full support. I’ll fight it with everyone else.
I didn’t see the endgame of this.
I WAS WRONG!! THIS MUST NOT PASS!!
Good thing the right to peacefully protest in the nude is protected by FEDERAL law. I feel vulnerable with this law in place and feel there is no better way to speak on this issue than to demonstrate with a nude protest in front of these businesses.
Indecent exposure is illegal. I don’t see it persuading members of the council.
Does Florida want the state’s registry to be declared unconstitutional? Because this is the path to get it declared unconstitutional.