Clewiston passes law to keep sex offenders farther away from schools
Clewiston passed a new ordinance to push sex offenders farther away from schools.
On Monday, city council passed an ordinance requiring sex offenders to live at least 2,500 feet from schools, parks, and playgrounds. Until now, offenders only had to live 1,000 feet away – the minimum state requirement.
Clewiston Police Chief Tom Lewis said the city needed to act after seeing more offenders move in – taking advantage of Clewiston’s less strict rules. He said this change brings Clewiston in line with nearby cities and he hopes it will prevent sex offenders from moving to the city.
Discover more from Florida Action Committee
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
If you have ever been to or lived in Clewiston you have to laugh at this restriction its an old school country town that does not care about restrictions and so on, this was done by some gung ho politician who represents Clewiston but may not live there and passed by other politicians that do not live there or near there either. Florida will soon be a no zone for any RSO’s and we have no way of getting off the registry even if your infraction is low risk. Common sense has left Florida. If i were still a young man on the registry i would move to Europe tomorrow
Move out the country would be an option.
Since they started branding passports and sending green notices, that’s not an option. Look up International Megan’s Law
Oh no!!!!!! 2k feet will definitely stop the boogie man from prowling 🤣😂😆. I feel so much safer. Why is this country not also enforcing the rampid drug problem? Making stiffer laws and punishment etc for drug dealers?
Drugs and alcohol of which causes a larger scale of deaths and harm to children, breaks familes apart etc etc. but they think an imaginary certain radius will keep someone who will actually offend or reoffend from kidnapping etc? 🤣 Then the very teachers in the school end up being the offender? 🤣 These lawmakers are hilarious.
They didn’t pass the restrictions for any other reason than they saw other municipalities do it because a few Registered Persons moved there. Monket see monkey do.
Now everyone will be safe! (Sarcasm) 😅
Yes..take them far away
Take who far away?
Molesters
We got a troll here guys! 😅😅
U need a troll
You first
So very true. It happens way more often than not and I know this from personal experience. Many teachers never get found out and they go from one student to the next. Even in private church schools.
Catherine Carpenter has lectured about how unconstitutional are the registries. It occurred to me after watching a few of her lectures that registries are just one tool in dismantling the Constitution. Ohio has an arson for life registry. There is a politician in Florida that wants a registry for animal abusers.
What’s next…spouse abuse registry? How many of them are sitting around trying to CONjure registries to strip more people of their constitutional and God-given human rights to food, clothing, shelter and pursuit of happiness?
With 9 and 10 year olds being forced onto registries, what truly is the end game, if not annihilation of the Constitution?
On a related note, I’ve taken on the monumental task of making a database of all municipal residency restriction ordinances in Florida. Incidentally, as I’m trying to do it alphabetically by county, I just started on Hendry County. It is hard to read the same tired remarks by public officials over and over again. Most municipal/couny codes have similar statements stating people forced to register have high reoffense rates and that these draconian measures are necessary.
In addition to what is mentioned in the news article, the statement taken from memo introducing the ordinance, as posted at Municode should be used to prove that the intent is indeed punitive, as the inttent is to prevent persons forced to register from moving there. (It is a joke to call Henry County a desirable place to live, as it is among the least populated counties in FloriDUH. As the population has a large Hispanic demographic, I’m sure they’ll be facing a population crisis soon enough.)
https://library.municode.com/fl/clewiston/ordinances/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=1352595
“Over the past months, the City of Clewiston has seen an uptick in the number of sexual offenders
taking residency within the city limits. Through discussion with the Sheriff’s Office, it was learned
that the City of LaBelle and Hendry County (unincorporated areas) have stricter local ordinances
(over and above the state law) that create a 2,500-foot minimum distance from each of the
locations, making Clewiston a more desirable place to seek residence as it is easier to find a
complaint location.
A top priority of the Clewiston Police Department is to protect our most vulnerable population
(our children) from sexual offenders and sexual predators. The adoption of the proposed ordinance
will remove Clewiston as a more desirable place to reside, send a message to sexual offenders that
they are not welcomed here, and provide the police department with additional tools to keep
predators out of our community.”
They would be better off keeping teachers farther away from schools. Those are the most common ones I see getting arrested for sexual misconduct with students.
Facts