Gainesville city commissioners consider changes to city’s sexual offender ordinance
Gainesville City Commissioners passed a motion to craft a proposed amendment to the current Sexual Offender and Sexual Predator Ordinance in place to mirror the state statute. [FAC NOTE: THIS WOULD BE GOOD!]
“I think it just makes a consistency and so it’s legally defensible. You know, that we’re not sort of afield of what is already accepted through the courts and through the upheld state practices and just creates that predictability and consistency,” City Mayor Lauren Poe said. The City of Gainesville’s ordinance adopted in 2005 is similar to the residency restriction provided in Florida Statutes, with two basic distinctions, radius distance and date.
The city’s ordinance shows a residency restriction of 2,500 foot radius while the state provides for a 1,000 foot radius.
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The problem is that this ordinance takes out circles 6.25 times the size in area as the state law. To illustrate the problem, let’s look at the Mequon WI residency restriction map!
https://www.ci.mequon.wi.us/police/page/sexual-predator-residency-restriction-map
I am SSSSSSOOOOOOOOO Sorry for those of you in the FASIST state of Florida. I Think that I have said before, Move out of that state and move NORTh. IN PA, there is none of the BULL***T. Here, they use the registry for what it was intended for, JUST INFORMATIONAL. I pray for those on the registry that lost their lives last week, in the Hurricane because the state of Florida thinks that we are subhuman. Sorry, But I am very bitter.
Seems they’re afraid of being sued and having to pay for their defense in the future.
But will they reduce the residency restrictions to 1000?
Yes, that is the proposal. And not make it retroactive.
17 years later, I’m still wondering how the state of Florida granted the power to the counties and municipalities to do things that the state has freely admit it would be illegal for them to do? I’m talking about applying the post 2005 residency restrictions to persons who were convicted prior to that date. Clearly, any older conviction that was subject to the residency restriction rules consider those residency restrictions to be punishment. How do we know that? Because it was a special condition of probation that expired upon termination of probation. Conditions of probation are punishment, not “ministerial actions”
A FL commission with some sense.