Miami New Times: Miami-Dade Will Close Sex Offender Camp by May 6, Threatens Jail Time for Stragglers
Since 2014, a colony of homeless sex offenders has been rapidly growing by the railroad tracks near Hialeah. Nobody wants them there, including the dozens who call the ramshackle camp home. Everyone, from the Homeless Trust to the ACLU to the county commission, agrees the encampment is a public health and safety hazard. But for years, the sex offenders have said that restrictive county laws mean they have nowhere else to legally live and that county officials have failed to solve the problem.
With the May 6 deadline quickly approaching, outreach groups have been working with the sex offenders to find new places to live. But thanks to stringent local laws governing where sex offenders can live, many homeless advocates worry they have few alternatives to their camp near the intersection of NW 71st Street and 36th Court. According to the mayor’s letter, Miami-Dade Police officers have the option to “remove” those who stay, a clause that refers to a local law permitting police to arrest those who trespass on county property.
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It’s just a way of incarcerating them or driving them out of the area making them someone else’s problem. Either way tbe focus would be off of the encampment or the homeless ex offenders because neither would exist for the general public to see and be uphauled about. After all we can’t have the public feeling any sort sympathy for ex offenders and possibly educating themselves to the truth that this whole thing is a sham
Noticed a nice new paddy wagon @ the Miami-Dade registration office yesterday as I’m sure others have.
Most of those people can move to Georgia and totally be removed from registration.. Prior to 2006 year . I think.
Not if they touched florida. No matter where you move even if no registry at all youre on here for life. How can this be fair?
It’s tough to move to Georgia if you have been lucky enough to find a job in Miami.