Comments on: Housing changes for sexual offenders will make Jacksonville safer

By: JZ

JZ — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 03:17:50 +0000

In reply to Florida Action Committee.

UPDATE NOV 6: Cowards! Jax Council panel defers bill changing sexual predator distance requirements:

http://floridapolitics.com/archives/245357-jax-sexual-predators-may-live-closer-to-day-care-centers-soon

By: Bmc usn ret.

Bmc usn ret. — Sat, 04 Nov 2017 10:32:35 +0000

In reply to PJ. Well said! I agree 100%

By: Florida Action Committee

Florida Action Committee — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 20:49:00 +0000

In reply to Jerry. No, Jacksonville (Duval) has their own ordinance SEPARATE from the State ordinance.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 20:20:20 +0000

In reply to Florida Action Committee. my conviction date was april, 2004( with-held adj ) so these dont apply to me ?? it gets sooooo confusing !

By: Florida Action Committee

Florida Action Committee — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 19:26:02 +0000

In reply to JS. Florida Statute says it "...applies to any person convicted of a violation of s. 794.011, s. 800.04, s. 827.071, s. 847.0135(5), or s. 847.0145 for offenses that occur on or after October 1, 2004"

By: Florida Action Committee

Florida Action Committee — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 19:15:43 +0000

In reply to JZ.

It should have been dropped to ZERO, considering there’s no evidence that SORRs do anything.

The reality is; this will alleviate the housing problem a little, but not nearly enough.

Let’s apply simple geometry to illustrating the difference between what 1500 and 1000 does… The area of a circle is pi (3.14) x the radius, squared.

The difference between 1500 feet (7,068,583.47 square feet) and 1000 feet (3,141,592.65 square feet) opens up 3,926,990.82 square feet of available area. Since the outer 500 feet of a radius encompasses more area than the inner 500, at first blush this does seem like a very significant reduction.

The problem with populous cities (Jacksonville has the highest population of any city in FL – 880,619 (2016), even more than Miami) is the number of facilities that form the center of these buffer zone circles. At the present 1500 feet, they need to, essentially be 3000 feet away from EACH OTHER (half a mile) in order to open up any availability between them, where in most cases the circles just overlap each other.

Jacksonville also has the one of the largest school districts (20th in the Country), which means it’ll have plenty of overlapping circles.

By: JS

JS — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 19:00:27 +0000

To be clear, the Florida legislature could have already resolved this ongoing problem by revising the state statute to supercede all municipalities, thus making the 1000′ minium uniform throughout Florida, applicable only to those whose offense or conviction occurred after the date the 1000′ statute came into effect. Does anyone know the exact date, by the way?

By: JS

JS — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 18:56:43 +0000

Just as with most other statutues, it should be offense specific…if the original offense involved a man or woman assaulting a student near or on school property or a park or library, then the individual should be banned and required to live a certain distance from such places during his or her supervision. The one size fits all approach is draconian in nature and has gone way past the point of insanity. This is what happens when you throw all the apples in one barrel.

By: JZ

JZ — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 18:27:19 +0000

In reply to no hope. Agreed. At the very least, it should have been dropped to 1,000 feet, not 1,500, to comply with state law. That extra 500 feet makes a big difference inside the 295 beltway.

By: Iservedmytym

Iservedmytym — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 12:53:39 +0000

They have not been eliminated because they are politician’s and want to cover their butts with their uninformed voters