Ordinance zones sex offenders out of most of Pasco County
A new Pasco County ordinance further limits where registered sex offenders can live.
“What we are really trying to say is we don’t want these people living among us,” Leduc explained.
Communities everywhere have rules about where convicted sex offenders can live. But the new rule in Pasco county is one of the toughest.
It more than doubles the buffer zone between sex offenders and areas like schools, playgrounds, parks and libraries – from 1000 feet to 2,500 feet.
Leduc asked, “what’s magical about 2,500 feet? What’s to stop Pinellas County from saying, ‘well, we’ll erect a 5,000 feet barrier.'”
“Even these guys, as bad as they are, deserve some piece of human dignity,” Leduc said. “They deserve some place to live that’s not in a hotel or that is not homeless or is not out in the middle of the green swamp.”
Leduc believes this new ordinance is politically motived and expects the trend to spread beyond the Pasco County line.
“How much is too much? At what point do we have a uniform statue that applies to the whole state? Or are we going to have a patchwork of 67 counties where each county is trying to out-do each other, ” Leduc said.
Pasco County has until mid January to file its response to the lawsuit. FOX 13 reached out to the county for comment, but did not receive a response No one from the county was available for comment.
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No matter what people may think or what they want, when you by pass laws that are clearly unconstitutional , you open the doors to other laws that are put in place to protect and laws that yourself may have to encounter some day, and it involves all types of crime. So by doing this your saying that you don’t uphold our countries laws and it says that you believe that our supreme court are not qualified or not wise in their decisions? So who is running this country.? This goes for homeless also people expect a person to just walk in circles not able to bathe properly and sleep properly and get employed that way smh this country has issues and it’s that they have lost all compassion or sense of what the right thing to do is. Finding the root of the problem is what one should do. Because where there is a will there is a way. But pushing humans into the grave just might be a grave mistake if they decide they have nothing to lose it could go the wrong way and end up having mass murders and then what?
So if a Hurricane comes or some other event they won’t be able to seek a safe place
Correct
NOTE: if anyone wants to read the complaint it can be found here: http://www.floridayoujudge.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Complaint-for-Declaratory-and-Injunctive-Relief.pdf