IL: Aurora seeks State grant for playground to keep registrants out.
A few months ago we wrote about 19 residents of Wayside Cross ministries (see here and here) who were nearly evicted from their home because the city sought to evict them claiming the men who were required to register as sex offenders were living too close to a playground.
So far, the civil rights attorneys representing the 19 individuals were keeping the evictions at bay with the argument that the park is not a playground and the law only covers “schools, playgrounds or daycare facilities.”
Now, according to the Associated Press, it seems that to circumvent that argument, the City of “Aurora may apply for a grant from the state to upgrade McCarty Park, including installing more playground equipment there.The $218,000 Open Space Land Acquisition and Development grant from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources would go toward the playground equipment as well as to fix up the water feature that is already there, city officials said.”
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The state thinks of a new hell every day for registrants and their families
I wonder if someone with $$$ recently bought property in the area and is now trying to get so’s out of the so property value goes up
Gosh, that would never happen, would it? Especially a politician or someone with ties to a politician. That they would purchase key land and then try to create “laws” to benefit themselves financially. They’d never be that immoral, right?
Whatever the reason or motive, whomever is behind ANY “residency restrictions” anywhere for any reason needs to be forced to pay.
The irony is, we’re being scammed as a result of the U.S. Government scamming it’s citizens with with a safety illusion known as Megan’s law. They’re both profiting from this boondoggle.
Reminds me of that Little Miami pocket park at Shorecrest, the one where they threw two kids toys onto an abandoned lot and declared it a “pocket park” when it looked like someplace you’d find Jason Voorhees.
Sadly, the Book Crime Family has promoted this idea throughout FloriDUH.
That was Marc Sarnoff’s little river pocket park.
From my point of view, this tactic is most insidious and should be recognized for what it is: weaponizing the registry law into a tool to enact banishment of registrants from society. If this is allowed to stand, then what prevents every single housing development in every single state from putting in a “pocket park” or “playground” in every new housing development simply as a way to preclude any registered citizen from ever moving in or even nearby?
Seminole County does exactly this. There are quite a few small lots that they buy, stick a bench and flag in it, and call it a park. I can only assume it is to continue to extend the restrictions to free travel within the county, especially because of the location of some of them.
Doesn’t ‘grandfathering’ fall into the equation somewhere? These folks are living in their home(s) before the playground. Something in my past study of the Constitution and the laws that led up to it, tell me that playground or not, these folks cannot be forced to move. When I was on probation, my home was within 1,000 feet of a playground…on HOA common area of which I am part owner, but that’s another story…and my home was grandfathered. Now that I am off of probation I do not worry about it.
While that may be true, the move would effectively shut down any help the mission could be to the registrant community over time as people transition out. It’s a loss to the city regardless… and truly Aurora will lose out as more registrants are forced away from support and stability.
Yep. And “people” who support these illegal, anti-American “restrictions” are too stupid to know it and too arrogant to care. I’m praying they are suffering today.