Sex Offenders Sent To Homeless Encampment Told To Find Housing, But Where?

Roughly 260 sex offenders have registered as their residence the intersection of Northwest 36th Court and 71st Street, on the edge of Hialeah and Miami.  The closest house is four blocks away and the only buildings here are squat warehouses. They start to roll in around 9:30 p.m., just in time for curfew. By the end of the night, around 50 people fill two dozen tents

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Tent camp of homeless sex offenders near Hialeah ‘has got to close,’ county says

Seven years after Miami-Dade County shut down a camp housing about 100 homeless sex offenders under a bridge in Miami, it’s now trying to deal with an encampment on the outskirts of Hialeah that has almost three times as many residents registered to live there. Police and social workers on Monday night visited the roughly 30 tents set up near

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Ron Book’s Hypocrisy in ‘Helping Homeless’ Sex Offenders

Weekly Update 2017-08-22 Dear Members and Advocates, This week you get another update about Ron and Lauren Book. Well, not exactly… it’s an update on the homeless situation we’ve been reporting on, but we need to provide some history first. A dozen years ago, lobbyist Ron Book, fought for a law that established a sex offender “exclusion zone”. Essentially a

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