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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Does this retroactivity mean that they will start kicking people out of their homes who are grandfathered in? The Due Process Clauses of both the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments ensure that the government cannot deprive someone of their property without fair legal procedures. Do they plan to somehow invoke eminent domain?
Won’t be long before everyone of us will be forced out.
Brevard county is worse.
Connnie
There are 67 counties in Florida and a lot of them are super tough. Seminole and Osceola are pretty tough in central Florida, but some of the worst are in the panhandle where the good ole boys Sheriff’s rule their turf with an iron fist. Ironically, that is where the majority of Florida prisons are at. I did time in a panhandle prison, and it was pretty scary.
I wish they would remember that people on the registry have families too! They are not concerned about people or their families – including children – only how they look to the public in general. But with the way things are going, everyone will be on the registry sooner or later and they’ll have no one left to impress.
Mary
In a way, our families are on the registry along with us. Vacations, visits to relatives, traveling abroad is either a no-no or made so restrictive that it is not worth the risk. Back when I worked, I was able to travel the World, then they started marking our passports and things got dicey and too much of a hassle to jump through legal hoops and face being locked up for a rule only one group in the World has to follow.
I had noticed in my report on municipal restrictions that only a few of them had a grandfather clause in them.
Can they enforce such a law against someone if the state law does not enforce the 1000 ft rule retroactively?
Good luck, who will read?
I don’t think I can appear in person, but I would send opposition emails to the commissioners.
@T
It just takes someone (Such as F.A.C) or someone to file a lawsuit or threaten to do so, and some of the cities back down, especially smaller cities that cannot afford a lawsuit. But in other instances, I have seen the ordinances went through. Other times they went through, but a lawsuit followed and there was a win, at least for the retro-active application of such.
But all of that involves funding and many like myself have near zero funds, no job and am on food stamps. I wish I could do more but F.A.C generally understands not all of us are in a position to donate. Bless all those who are able to donate.