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I didn’t think about officials seeing this and taking action, and I apologize. Could my post above and the responses (including this one) be deleted, please?
Reply to moderator: Thank you for your comments. As much as I would like to help people with this problem, you are absolutely correct. In the four years I have been active with FAC, every county in Florida that has enacted harsher SO ordinances has done so because the surrounding counties had such ordinances, and they were afraid that if they did not follow suite, the registrants would start pouring into their county. This is exactly what recently happened in Hernando Co.
No county that I now of has enacted a SO ordinance because of an increase in sex crimes by people on the registry. It is always to try to force them out of their county, i.e., banishment.
Orange or osceola county
I am in need of the email addresses for the Hillsborough Co Commissioners. All I can find are the online forms you can fill out. Thank you.
Commissioner Harry Cohen:
Commissioner Ken Hagan (Chair):
Commissioner Gwen Myers (Vice Chair):
Commissioner Michael Owen:
Commissioner Donna Cameron Cepeda:
Commissioner Pat Kemp:
Commissioner Joshua Wostal:
https://amp.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/miami-beach/article277428983.html
“The homeless population of Miami Beach was 235 in January, according to the latest count by the Miami-Dade County Homeless Trust, an increase from 167 last August and the city’s highest count in more than a decade. There were 608 homeless people counted in the city of Miami. Those figures account for people living on the street outside of shelters.”
“Miami Beach officials have gone back and forth in recent months with Ron Book, a lobbyist for the city in Tallahassee and the chair of the Miami-Dade Homeless Trust, as Book has requested money from the city to support new permanent housing efforts the trust is pursuing.” The man’s wealthy if he truly cared about the homeless he would be inclined to use his own money to help fund the project instead of buying Lamborghinis and paying off the lawsuits. Ron Book cares nothing about the homeless only about controlling where the live.
Maybe if they actually did away with unconstitutional living restrictions then you would have this https://www.wfla.com/8-on-your-side/investigations/what-did-florida-know-about-a-sexual-predator-camp-did-anyone-tell-the-public/amp/