Homeless sex offender listed intersection near middle school as his address
ORLANDO, Fla. – The sexual offender registry is designed to help residents know where sexual offenders live.
Channel 9 found out that within a 1-mile radius of Lake Eola Park, there are twice as many homeless sexual offenders as there are sexual offenders living in permanent residences.
“You’ve got to have a way to keep track of them,” Orlando resident Larry McIntyre said. “If you have no residence, how can you keep track of the sex offender?”
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Speaking of those who became homeless of the Registery.. Could we please get an update on the Ex post facto Any news? and court date established for a hearing or arguement?
I found an email address for media relations for the parent company, Cox Media Group. This is the email I just sent:
Dear Cox Media Group:
I recently read the following article published on the WFTV9 website:
https://www.wftv.com/news/local/channel-9-investigation-reveals-sex-offender-listed-middle-school-as-his-address/951552134
This investigation seemed a bit on the shallow side, as it didn’t address the obvious question in reader’s minds, which is how to deal with the problem of homelessness among those on the registry in the community.
As one who supports various homeless and transitional housing causes, the issue of homelessness among those on the sex offense registry is one that I applaud WFTV9 for covering, but the piece falls way short of doing anything constructive about the issue. The only intent of the article seemed to incense the reader regarding the presence of homeless registered individuals in their communities.
I would suggest pulling the current one and releasing a new article that talks about how residency restrictions (RRs) have forced many on the registry into homelessness (in some cases, despite possible housing alternatives that would otherwise suffice except that they run afoul of state and local RRs). I would mention the overwhelming evidence that RRs don’t make communities safer (you can google the topic if you wish), but how homelessness itself, and the inherit instability associated with it, is likely a far greater contributor to risk of recidivism.
Rather than simply cutting and pasting in some hi-zoom shots of homeless persons along with inflammatory commentary from a citizen or two, I would refrain from pandering to the hysteria of such a charged topic and inform your readership on the issue. Doing so just might help move this problem toward resolution.
Sincerely,
[name withheld]
This is excellent
I hope I’m wrong but this won’t make a difference. All formal news organizations are shills for a disruptive government who is trying to keep the public chasing its tail and in fear from EVERYTHING in order to hide the fact that it has become bloated and useless.
All I can say about Kelly’s commentary is “AMEN!”
We’ve got to keep an eye on “Them” !!!!!????!. Meanwhile, Their neighbors, That are “Normal People”, Like Police, Firemen, Mail Workers, Teachers, and so on, Are Committing Sex Crimes !!!!. When are people gonna WAKE UP ??????!!!!!!!!?????
Orange county is pretty forgiving as far as the registry restrictions. If they ever change it, hope they do not make it retroactive like some cities and counties did forcing people to move out of houses they lived in for 20 years
There’s no place to leave comments on the article. You scroll to the end and it just puts up more of those stupid ads. How convenient.
It’s like preaching to the choir on here, but I’m glad that some of the people they interviewed had enough sense to see that there needs to be a plan in place for these people to actually live somewhere.
Well, duhhhhhhh. Welcome to reality Joe Florida citizen.
Channel 9 news is the worst in Central Floriduh. So it’s no wonder they don’t have a comment section. That’s by design since they don’t want to have anyone else’s comments except their own sensationalised commentary.
I second your opinion about channel 9.
This shows that the registry is useless.
au contraire the registry is VERY useful to those who like to bully, intimidate and stalk people. Especially if they want to use those people. For example, person X knows person Y is on SO registry so person X threatens to falsely accuse person Y in order to get them to do what person X wants.
I monitor the local weekly newspaper police report. In the past six weeks there has been two reports on the activities of sex offenders…as compared to the activities of hundreds of drug users/possessors, drunk drivers, home burglars, etc. The two reports on sex offenders involved failure to register new addresses. I guess that for some reason that justifies a registry while the rest of the violators are registry free.