InJusticeToday: As Deadline Approaches for Homeless Ex-Offenders in Florida, County Threatens to Jail Them
A few miles from Miami International Airport, outside of Hialeah, sits a tent camp of about 280 homeless people. There’s no electricity or running water and no bathrooms. News reports describe the stench of human waste and garbage, tents that flood when it rains, and flies, mosquitoes, and rats infesting the area. “Animals live better than this,” one resident told a reporter.
He and the others there are on the state sex offender registry. Miami-Dade County laws make it almost impossible for them to find places to live and bar homeless shelters from taking them in. For many registrants, the encampment has been a last resort, but in January, county leaders passed a new rule that makes them subject to arrest if they don’t find housing by May 7.
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Well, now they can move to Broward County and Palm Beach County, right? Of course, that assumes that their PO’s will let some of them go. Good to get SOME good news from down there after years of nothing but bad.
disgracefully that humanity has come to condemning another for a label and being indigent.