Coral Springs, FL (Broward County) seeks to tighten residency restrictions
The Coral Springs City Commission is scheduled to meet this Wednesday, August 20, 2025 at 06:30 PM at Commission Chambers, City Hall, 9500 W. Sample Road, Coral Springs, FL 33065 to do a first reading of Ordinance 2025-114, which proposes to Amend Code of Ordinances Section “Sexual
Offender and Sexual Predator, Residence Prohibitions; Penalties, Exceptions” to “to clarify restrictions and provide for additional enforcement mechanisms”
The greatest concern is that they now seek to make their existing 2500 foot ordinance retroactive, meaning that no matter whether the offense was committed prior to the enactment of their original 2005 ordinance, the person would STILL be subject to it. Additionally, the new ordinance would allow the City Attorney’s office to file a civil lawsuit against any person who violates the ordinance.
If you will be in the area and would like to speak out against the ordinance, please contact FAC and ask for the Broward County Coordinators.
Remember that other cities have failed legal challenges that have made their banishment ordinances retroactive. This also applies to school bus stops!
HERE’S THE LETTER FAC SENT TO THE COMMISSION: FAC Letter Coral Springs
To see a map of what Coral Springs’ exclusion zone looks like, click here (and that does not even include the school bus stops)!
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Just a thought for those who may attend the meeting and want to include this in their letter(s):
Ask for a map of those verified active entities within the exclusion zone that are creating the exclusion zone so people know exactly where and what those places are to avoid while getting the county calculus to understand the exact distance methodologies and places used in the calculus. Chances are LE and the commissioners won’t know where to start or be able to provide the public data in one list.
All of those within the zones should then be afraid of their public data being listed in one spot and shared publicly again with those they don’t want around. Just think of the baseless fear that could be generated. If this is asked for en masse, then some secondary considerations will start to happen.
You cannot know where to avoid living if you don’t know where to start.
Don’t forget to add an action allert for Putnam County as well. Sheriff DeRoach is making it his mission to kick every Registered Person out of the county. He boasted to me the following in an email:
“Thank you for confirming that we are, in fact, on the right track. You see, if I know this gets under your skin, I consider it a measure of our success.
I appreciate your passion, but I’ll stick with protecting our children and supporting the law-abiding families of Putnam County over the complaints of self-styled “civil rights advocates” whose cause only seems to gain traction after a conviction.”
These far right nutjobs don’t hide their intent,. They brag about it.
The post has been updated to contain a link to the letter sent by FAC to the Commission. If anyone wants to contact one or all of the commissioners, you can do so by email:
City Attorney John Hearn [email protected]
Mayor Scott J. Brook [email protected]
Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer Bowen [email protected]
Commissioner (seat 2) Shawn Cerra [email protected]
Commissioner (seat 4) Joshua Simmons [email protected]
Commissioner (seat 5) Joseph McHugh [email protected]
Curiosity. Can you send a letter like that too Brevard County? They retroactive the ordinances there too. You cannot go anywhere in Brevard, the only thing you can do there is go to a government meeting if you notify them in advance. Other than that you can only drive through.
You can speak with the county coordinator in Brevard to let them know if they are considering an ordinance amendment or something else timely is occurring. If there’s something happening in Brevard or elsewhere, FAC can certainly get involved. To our knowledge we don’t know of anything pending. When they passed the proximity ordinance, FAC’s efforts were what got the registrants the right to even attend those meetings (or any public meeting).
Would this apply even to people who own their homes? This seems really barbaric.
There is an exemption for people who registered and maintained an address since 2005.
FS 775.215 Florida conviction for offenses that occur on or after October 1, 2004, & for extra-jurisdictional/“out-of-state” offense for offense occurred on or
after May 26, 2010: A person who has been convicted of a violation of FS §794.011, §800.04, §827.071, §847.0135(5), or §847.0145, regardless
of whether adjudication has been withheld, in which the victim of the offense was less than 16 years of age, may not reside within 1,000 feet of
any school, child care facility, park, or playground. State law also creates “Presence Restrictions” or proximity laws, i.e., laws that state you
cannot loiter or be present at or near certain locations. So what does this mean if you were convicted in 1991? And also does ordinances take preference over Florida Statutes?
Connie, you are citing to the state statute. If someone’s conviction was pre October 1, 2004 they would not be subject to the state statute. They may, however, be subject to a County or a City ordinance. There are three layers to check. The state may only be 1000, but a county might have 2500 feet. A county may only include schools, day cares, and parks, but a City might include school bus stops and playgrounds. It’s a Chinese menu where you pick the worst from each column and that’s what you’re subjected to.
I’d like to know how they can enforce residency restrictiom laws retoactively at the local level if the state cannot do the same.
It’s in the Florida Constitution. Article VIII, Section 1(f) & (g),gives counties broad “home rule” powers and Article VIII, Section 2(b) gives cities and towns the same authority.
Wait, so if someone on the registry already lived there for years, along with their family, they have to move (At least the registered person does) and or break up the family retro-actively? That is pushing the line to the point that the legality of it is insane. They just want us all to run out of money for lawsuits so they can get away with anything and everything they vote on towards registered citizens. (Who are still people, not monsters)
It is one thing to expand the distance for future residence who may move into the area, but to make someone move for not doing anything wrong other than being on the registry, destroying lives and breaking up households, in my opinion is just pure evil.
If someone registered and maintained that registry since 2005 they don’t have to move.
Wow, that is 20 years! So someone who bought their house in good faith 10 years ago would have to move? All of this makes me very happy that I live in a state which preempts any county or city from making their own rules. The fight only needs to be conducted at one place, i.e. the state legislature. That may be why we have no residency restrictions at all for registrants who are off paper. I really do feel for you people who live in Florida.
I truly feel that if you never offended again after 10 years. You should be taken off the registery Period