Deltona seeking to tighten restrictions on where sex offenders can live
The City of Deltona, Florida is considering expanding their Sex Offender Residency Restrictions. A resolution was brought forward this past Monday to “add “Designated School Bus Stops, Libraries, and Churches to the list defining locations as to where children congregate so that distancing calculations as to living restriction where an individual convicted of a violation of F.S. Section 794.011, 800.04, 827.071, 847.0135(5) or 847.0145 or similar law of another jurisdiction, regardless of whether adjudication has been withheld, may reside in the City of Deltona. Additionally, revision to Sec 48-2 (4) Temporary residence definition changed from five days to three”
We encourage you to write to the commissioners at [email protected] and ask them to OPPOSE the measure.
Any members in or around Deltona are encouraged to contact the commission to find out the status of the amendment and share their findings in the comments below.
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I have a real problem with this paragraph in deltona, florida commissioners reading of the ordinance. Where do they get their data from.
(a)Repeat sexual offenders, sexual offenders who use physical violence and sexual offenders who
prey on children are sexual predators who present an extreme threat to the public safety. Sexual
offenders are extremely likely to use physical violence and to repeat their offenses, and most
sexual offenders commit many offenses, have many more victims than are ever reported, and are
prosecuted for only a fraction of their crimes. This makes the cost of sexual offender victimization
to society at large, while incalculable, clearly exorbitant.
That’s the preamble for all these ordinances. It’s a cut and paste of language that was disproved years ago.
The preamble has not yet been disproven in COURT, at least not in our circuit, even though it’s disproven in the scientific community.
Let’s keep working the courts!
S943.0435 justification is almost as inflammatory and also unproven:
“(12) The Legislature finds that sexual offenders, especially those who have committed offenses against minors, often pose a high risk of engaging in sexual offenses even after being released from incarceration or commitment and that protection of the public from sexual offenders is a paramount government interest. Sexual offenders have a reduced expectation of privacy because of the public’s interest in public safety and in the effective operation of government.”
just tired:
Read Mann v Georgia, 282 Ga 754, 603 SE2d 283 (2007) and discuss it with your attorney. Forcing you out of your home is unconstitutional. This would be a good issue for a class action.
Good luck.
The More things dont change the more they get worse
Jim:
These laws are constitutional until challenged in court.
Any monetary damages should go to registrants and their families that have suffered because of these laws.
Can this be held retroactive? I live in deltona. I bought a house a year ago here. This comes very concerning. I sold my house in ocoee,fl. I owned for 25 years and couldnt live there legally.
I got out of prison in 2010 and there was a case in Deltona where the city tried to make a couple registrants move. A judge decided they couldn’t make them move. I remember because I had just gotten out and I was living DeLand on probation at the time. Not that it’s answered your question but just something I remember. Deltona is the worst about that out here.
Just tired
Watch the video I posted on here. The city council said they would not force anyone out of their home who is already living there. However, if a bus stop is put near your home, they do plan to notify they parents of the presence of an offender in that area.
Where I live, the school bus stop literally stops 21 feet from my front door. I told the school board at a meeting that the kids play in front of my house all week anyway so if I were going to grab one of their kids it wouldn’t be in front of the school bus full of witnesses.
AND here is what is sad. They put everyone on the registry together and make it sound like we are all a child predator. They seem to throw the same rules on someone who watched some porn along with a serial rapist that attacked 10 kids.
At one point it was talked about having threat assessments and levels where an ex offender could get a mental health evaluation and risks analysis. They would either get bumped up, bumped down or get removed from the registry based on the findings.
That got so much push back from those who would have lost the most from the registry going away that it was tabled.
I told the judge one time to let me off and if I got so much as a loitering charge I would agree to go to prison for life but the judge said they did not have the authority to order that “Sort of nonsense”. In other words “Uh no”.
I don’t remember hearing that. What I remember is the one guy speaking and did not want anybody grandfathered in and insisted with the officer that the school board be held responsible to a degree of not putting a school bus stop near an offender. The officer didn’t seem to want anybody run out of their homes. Nothing I remember was discussed about the what ifs. Say i’m to close to a church or library or such now. They cant move the church like a bus stop. Is it even possible to move a bus stop a half a mile away from me and kids still be able to reach that bus.
Just tired
That scenario should be a slam dunk case for why the registry is punishment then if you are forced to move. I mean at what point is that fine line between civil and punitive?
It seems it has been crossed many times, and yet the courts turn a blind eye to the facts. So THAT is what they mean by justice is blind! They only see what they want to see.
Just let them know that leaves nowhere you can live and you plan to sue big time including them personally since you’ve made them aware and they showed neglect by not doing a study causing harm and maybe even death in some cases not having a place to live is pretty serious.