Miami-Dade’s Homeless Sex Offenders Get the Boot Again
For more than a decade, the sex offenders left homeless by Miami-Dade’s prohibitive residency restrictions have settled beneath bridges and highway overpasses, in abandoned lots, and along train tracks. Nobody wants them in their communities, and the sex offenders themselves would rather be anywhere but on the street.
Last week, Miami-Dade County issued a cease-and-desist notice prohibiting the sex offender colony from continued use of the property. The Florida Department of Health declared the camp a “sanitary nuisance,” according to the notice. Dozens of offenders must leave the encampment by December 5 or face arrest.
“These people are just trying to survive, and we keep moving them around for really no good reason,” says Gail Colletta, president of the Florida Action Committee, an advocacy organization that works to reform sex offender legislation. “It’s all about punishment and a NIMBY mentality. These are human beings being treated worse than stray animals.”
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Good article by Alexi. And lest we forget, she references this:
“Ronald Book, chairman of the Miami-Dade Homeless Trust, states in no uncertain terms that he wants nothing to do with the problem of homeless sex offenders. “I don’t take them — I won’t take them into our programs,” he says bluntly.”
https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/swept-under-the-bridge-6334676
After 12 years, this ¢0¢k$u¢ker has kept his word not to help registered citizens. Yet he is still in charge of the (Non-Sex Offender) Homeless Trust.
JZ – can you point that out in the comments on the site, please?
Like 90% of all websites, a Facebook login is required to leave comments. We are not allowed on Facebook so I am muzzled, my freedom of speech is chilled, I am banished from the public square.
Lets bring a class action suit against facebook. Packingham will provide the foundation and certainly assure success.
Great idea! Who will fund it?
Facebook. We could sue not only for access but also damages. The real question is can we find an attorney to work on contingency?
So you propose Facebook will fund the suit against themselves? Such a suit will cost six figures! If you can get them to pay the filing fee I’ll be amazed.
As far as finding an attorney to take the case on a contingency, I’m afraid you will be searching for a long time, but if you can find one, we’re in.
I’m no so certain that success against fb is assured. Packing ham does not require fb to do anything.
Correct – Packingham is meaningless for a civil suit against FB. Packingham only says the government can’t block a registrant’s access to social media. NOT that the social media platform can’t block it’s own access.
I certainly would not fund the fight against facebook! Thank you for those who help with the Ex Facto funding. I like to thank those too who are funding the out of state fund as well I noticed it has been moving but we will get there.
I wanted to say Happy Thanksgiving but I know there are some fellow Register Citizens who won’t have this happy day. I asked we lower our heart if not our head for a brief moments to honor those who missing out the day with family,friends and love ones. I asked not for those just behide the walls but for all the others as well.
I thankful for being almost 10 years free with GOD’s help. I thankful the attorneys who fighting these lawsuits here at F.A.C. I thankful to read these comments weather they good or bad I feel I gotten to know each of you daily. I thankful for F.A.C. people who work endless helping us. I am also thankful for Pat and Terry and those who make AZRSOL possible too
I will post comments for JZ but does it do any good if the article was from March of 2007? Would anyone read them?
Please post them on the current article. The author references the 2007 article. Thank you!
I called the chapman and homeless trust today. Supposedly someone will get back to me. I complained that the advertisement running on 93.9 is false, they don’t serve everyone. I called 93.9 as well, I let them know that I think the advertising they do for the homeless trust is inaccurate.
using the reckless chairman’s own words about helping those homeless who are sex offenders. As far as the nanny did it, maybe she got tired of servicing the “head’ of the household. If the GEO bought and paid for politicians, the commissioners, the lobbyists, and the big WHAT IF, the lawmakers actually read empirical research and didn’t line their pockets with the money of the homeless..we would see progress.
Ron Book needs to keep a few things in mind whenever he’s sober:
The nanny he hired had NO PREVIOUS CRIMINAL RECORD. Otherwise, he would not have hired her. Keeping this is mind, let’s put EVERYONE on the sex offender registry just IN CASE they MIGHT commit a sex offense… like his nanny did.
Not all offenses of a sexual nature are against someone’s will. (Lying teenagers, consenting adults on a beach at night, etc).
Stop making everyone else suffer for what his nanny did to his daughter. Otherwise, then himself in as a repeat alcoholic drunk driver.
Who has the knowledge of law (i.e. an attorney) along with the balls to tell Ronnie this?
No one. So perhaps it’s time we all told him. The man has an email address, right?
My typo above, should have read; “TURN himself in as a repeat alcoholic drunk driver”.
iPhones like to auto correct words that don’t need to be corrected.