DeBary ordinance expands sex offender regulations
If you reside in DeBary and are being told you need to move from your home, please contact [email protected]
DeBary’s City Council passed an ordinance expanding regulations over registered sex offenders.
The ordinance bans registered sex offenders from community pools, water parks, school bus stops, and other private and public areas. The ordinance also increases the distance sex offenders can live from these places.
The previous ordinance kept sex offenders 1,000 feet away from parks, schools, bus stops, and other areas you can find children. Now, the distance is 2,500 feet.
Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood says he worked with community members to update the ordinance after people voiced concerns. He says registered sex offenders in violation of the ordinance must move.
“You better read this ordinance, before you rent to somebody and do a background check,” Sheriff Chitwood said, “because they’ll be relocated now with this ordinance. There’s no grandfathering-in or anything.”
The ordinance took effect upon approval. Sheriff Chitwood hopes surrounding cities will also update their sex offender ordinances.
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Ex post facto legislation is unconstitutional and I am beyond sick and tired of legislators and worse yet judges ignoring this. This one-upmanship is exactly why there should be one uniform state standard. Each town or county should NEVER be allowed to enact their own residency restrictions. Period.
It seems the courts in Florida just don’t care what the Constitution says about ex post facto legislation where registered citizens are concerned.
South Carolina has that law. No districts can impose tougher laws than the state law… All cities are the same. no crazy hodge podge of laws impossible to comply with.
It is not different than the Marijuana laws. The Feds say it is illegal but many states legalized it, basically overriding Federal law. As long as the the Feds, States, Counties, cities are not on the same page, there will be confusion and abuse of power and authority
This is absurd, Unconstitutional, double jeopardy to the 2nd power to say the least.
“No grandfathering in”, how can anyone, let alone an SO just simply have re-root themselves and their family elsewhere at a drop of a dime due to a new “city ordinance”… this is so wrong… how about implementing mental health awareness and prevention programs, society reintegration, 2nd chance programs… this is just so wrong..
The same way they threw the registry at some of us decades after we were sentenced. If the registry was part of the system when I was sentenced I would have fought my charges to the death. This is like when we were kids and called someone an Indian giver. Changing the deal after the fact.
So your telling me that if I had bought a house within legal means there they can change the laws when ever they want and just tell me to sell my house and vacate. I am currently close to selling my house in ocoee where I cannot live at all in the city regardless of distance, We are looking to buy in or near lake county and I am really stressed right now trying to find a house to buy. To think that Debary can do this at a whim because people voiced concerns. Just goes to show you how feel good the laws really are. The thought is scary. This reminds me of a scene in Harry Potter where Harry goes to court and Dumbledore recites the law for the whole jury but the head judge declares laws can be changed if need be (with a red face).
I was wondering what Chitwood ( The Sheriff ) was doing over seeing Debary then I remembered Debary does not have a police department and is policed by the Sheriff’s office .
This even legal? How did this happen pit of the blue?
The hateful stupidity continues marching forward in Florida with no end in sight. Truly sickening. What a pathetic state to allow the abuse and segregation of its citizens.
NOTHING they have done provides any additional safety and actually diverts the attention from the real perps…the kid’s coach, uncle Joe, the local priest – you know – actual sex offenders aka someone the child and/or parents already know.
These sex offender laws are nothing but emotional manipulation by LE and shady politicians like Senator Lauren Book aka “professional victim” and all around hate-spewing lair.