Miami-Dade Sued Over Sex Offender Eviction
A Lawsuit and Emergency Motion for Temporary Injunction were filed against Miami-Dade County on behalf of registered sex offenders legislated into homelessness and directed to live at an encampment on a street corner alongside active railroad tracks in a warehouse district in unincorporated Miami-Dade County.
This is the fourth such encampment created by the County, after sex offender residency restrictions exclude registrants from living in most of Miami-Dade.
In an effort to shut this one down, the County recently amended their “overnight camping ordinance” to allow police to arrest homeless sex offenders on sight. The only problem is; they are involuntarily homeless and there is nowhere for them to go!
The Complaint and Emergency Motion for Injunction were filed by a team of attorneys from Legal Services of Greater Miami, the Florida Justice Institute and the ACLU of Florida. It was filed in Miami-Dade Circuit Court and as of the time of this post has not been assigned yet (it was literally filed moments ago).
The Injunction seeks to preserve the status quo (avoid eviction or arrest of the registrants) until the Lawsuit is decided. The Lawsuit asks the court to declare the side of the road where the registrants are now living not “County facility/property” and therefore not subject to the camping ordinance. It also asks the court to declare the Miami-Dade county ordinance that allows sex offenders to be arrested on sight for violating the “overnight camping ordinance” cruel and unusual punishment.
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Ron Book need to be sued directly.
This was all over the news last night on some stations. Some of it had it as a priority news. They were there live, and the police who spoke, had this sympathetic tone to his voice but still making their presence known. Yea, like they care.
Of course, the news station caught up to Ron Book somewhere live in dade or broward ( I couldn’t tell ) to get his word on this. The guy looks shriveled up/skinny and looking like he is sick or has an illness. I had to pause and rewind and pause again. His eyes are like half shut, almost like they are being forced to be shut completely. I wonder if he is suffering from an illness of some type. He looked really old, like literally in the 80’s in age.
Saw him in person recently. He lost a lot of weight. I don’t know if it’s intentional. No known illness.
@Ted
I noticed that too on the debate video FAC posted. I would never ever wish death on a person or a terminal illness. HOWEVER, I believe in an Almighty God and His Word the Holy Bible. It says two interesting things in there. It says that life and death are in the hands of God and that He determines our beginning and ending. I believe that personally. It also says that God will not be mocked, and that a man reaps what he sows. This is also known to most people as “karma.” And of course, the golden rule is in there, do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Jesus was the one that said that. So, with that being said, I am pretty sure that a loving God who wants us to love others and do good to others and forgive others “70 times 7” as Jesus said, which is basically to mean to forgive others as much as it is necessary, so when God sees people doing harm to others and using their power and influence to hurt and make other people’s lives miserable, HE IS NOT GOING TO STAND IDLY BY AND LET IT HAPPEN!! He is going to intervene. The Bible also says that the humble will be exalted and the proud will be humbled. It doesn’t say how that happens either. Let’s just say that my so-called female “therapist” I had for group therapy, was basically a man-hating, victim advocate loving, arrogant person. She had 18 rules on top of our probation rules that we had to follow or else she would have us violated. Among these rules were no drinking, no sexual contact with anyone without HER consent. If we wanted to date anyone SHE had to have a meeting with them to “approve” them and they had to be within 4 years of our age. Those are just a few of the ridiculous rules she forced on us. And of course, if you failed your polygraph you got blessed out in front of everyone and most of the questions on there involved following her rules.
In any event, she was quick to shame men in the group and would literally e-mail our PO’s if we admitted to anything in group. So that’s why I never said anything. She took pride in getting people violated. It was like her badge of honor. Welllllllll, this past Halloween night, she was driving home from conducting group and got decapitated by a log truck in a car accident. Hmmmm. So, I hope Ron Book is not battling a terminal illness and wish him the best in that regard, but he is in the hands of God now, and I forgot this one other verse that’s in the Bible, ” it is a terrifying thing to be in the hands of an angry God.” So, I would encourage him to soften his heart, change his ways, repent, get close to God and ask His forgiveness. Otherwise, well, it’s not up to me………..