Homeless registrants lose appeal against Miami-Dade
Sadly, the homeless registrants in Miami-Dade lost their appeal to the 11th Circuit in a decision returned today.
The loss was on a technicality – whether the suit can be construed as an “as applied” challenge vs. a “facial challenge”. The 11th circuit’s decision was that the plaintiffs didn’t bring their case “as applied” to the John Doe plaintiffs from the get-go and therefore the Defendants didn’t have a fair chance to defend accordingly.
We are very disappointed with the result that is the culmination of 6 years of litigation and that leaves hundreds of individuals who could otherwise have a roof over their heads living on the streets.
You can read the decision here: Does v. Miami-Dade – Order 11th Circuit
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It’s getting to be that time of year again. Don’t freeze to death. Go to Restoration Community Outreach, 1205 Norman, Saginaw, Michigan 48601 for emergency housing. You can stay up to 2 years. They usually house 20-30 registrants at a time throughout the winter. YOU ARE NOT ALONE!!!
The Detroit police have never enforced the registry. Look up MIPSOR. The compliance rate is barely 50%. The “non-compliant” ones haven’t registered in years. Look up the last registration dates for “compliant” sex offenders in Detroit. Many haven’t “reported” in more than a year or two. Cincinnati has a compliance rate of 98%. The Detroit police send an officer out only if the state police or sissy U.S. Marshall’s don’t want to go after these “dangerous offenders” alone. Other than that, the Detroit police don’t care.
Michigan has stopped prosecuting FTR’s thanks to a series of state and federal court decisions. Look on the map. Sex offenders are living across the street of schools, parks and day care centers. Google “Michigan” and “failure to register”. No FTR’s in the news in the last 3 years. Michigan’s new Attorney General, Dana Nessel, has placed a moratoriom on FTR’s. Every other AG in the country is racing to ostracize and make sex offenders homeless. Michigan’s AG stands alone in telling the state legislature that the registry is useless. Look up what she says about the registry on the state’s official website and her court briefs opposing the registry.
Look up registrants on MIPSOR. Less than 1% are homeless. In Miami it’s 25%.
You are free to sleep in your tent in Miami and keep complaining or you could move to Michigan and be part of the solution.
Sex offenders are the canary in the cage. If I were forced to register, I would leave the country. Pretty soon, we will all be required to register and will be wearing GPS’s. Wake up America!!!