Miami-Dade sets up to arrest homeless sex offenders by amending ordinance.
Miami-Dade county is considering amending Section 21-286 of the County Code – prohibiting overnight camping, eliminating a safeguard to protect against arrest, when applied to registered sex offenders or predators.
Currently, the County Code prevents overnight camping on County property. If an individual does not leave the property, they will be arrested for trespassing.
However, the Code also provides that a “Homeless person” shall first be offered an opportunity to go to a homeless shelter.
County officials, realizing that homeless shelters won’t take registrants, have found that “the requirement to offer homeless persons violating the prohibition an opportunity to go to a homeless shelter has proven unworkable, unduly burdensome on law enforcement, and has rendered the prohibition meaningless when the homeless person is a sexual predator, sexual offender or is otherwise ineligible to stay at homeless shelters.”
In other words… there’s no place for these individuals to go, so probation directs them to go sleep by the tracks – but if they sleep by the tracks they are told by police to leave. They face arrest if they don’t stay there, yet they face arrest if they do.
The proposed change to the ordinance has been added as “Agenda Item 4(a)” to the Board of County Commissioners to be heard on 11/7/2017. Information on the meeting is:
| Date/Time: | November 07, 2017 9:30 a.m. – | |
| Address: | 111 NW 1st Street 2nd Floor Commission Chambers Miami, FL 33128 |
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| Contact Person: | Daysha McBride | |
| Phone Number: | 305-375-1293 | |
And the proposed ordinance can be found here:
Overnight Camping Amendment – Bovo 11.7.2017 (002)
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As my neighbor’s wife told me…her husband is a good friend and a retired NYPD lieutenant…I would be better off if I had murdered someone rather than touch my daughter inappropriately 18 years ago. Oh, and by the way, my daughter and I reconciled years ago but the bureaucrats still want to ‘punish’ me with refusal to recommend early release from probation…what the heck, I’m worth $360 a month to them…and in the process punish the victim, my daughter. We live in a system that has found that punishment and no restoration is profitable.
Just a sneaky way to get rid of them to another county…