Union County, Florida was next to pass harsh residency restrictions
Like Dominoes… Union County, Florida passed its 2500 foot Sex Offender Residency Restriction on the 15th of September. Union, which is the smallest county in the State, now has one of the harshest SORRs.
Of course, the SORR includes school bus stops, but among the other winners in this draconian ordinance is a prohibition on “traveling through” a buffer zone unless you are attending to a list of 7 exemptions. Not on the list of exemptions is stuff like shopping for groceries, going to the bank, getting a haircut, grabbing a coffee, getting gas, or going to church.
Naturally the ordinance does not require the county to paint lines or put up signs when you are entering within 2500 feet of one of these places, so it’ll be up to you to know where those 2500 foot circles are.
Let’s see which county is next!
You can read a copy of the ordinance here: Union County Ordinance 2025-04
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Why has no one from union county stood up to this being unconstitutional? This is against the 14th ammendment.
It does NOT specify whether it applies to incorporated communities or not.
I was shocked in reading this ordinance because it was so inaccurate and could have been plagiarized by a third grader. Obviously, no city council member validated its content. If this profile is used by any other municipality, county, or state body, then I now understand how more and more laws are being written and passed by “do-good” politicians in Florida that continue to dehumanize Americans and stack more and more draconian restrictions on their lives. I can better understand the lack of wisdom in this written agenda to obliterate those Americans on the registry and curtail any progress they may be making on reentry into life. It seems to me that this template is probably being used to educate and reeducate our legislatures and city councils as they continue making more dubious laws and ordnances that spew their fears for what they do not understand. Almost every point made page after page is inaccurate and paints a bleak picture of those on the registry, who are really bad and dangerous people, like all of us (sarcasm).
After reading this fantasy narrative, I myself would naively endorse more and more restrictions – the genocidal redistricting, restricting use of parks, beaches, streets near bus stops, any streets leading to or from any outlet with children, which becomes all city streets, retail outlets that service any children like fast food franchises, motels with pools, voting and churches, grocery stores, and any adult education held afterhours in schools. I would prohibit parents from meeting with their minor sons and daughters, access to nursing and retirement homes for the elderly; why not hospitals and retail clothing stores that service families and school children. We need to deny them shelter during life threatening emergency storms. As long as documents like this template exist, the plight of registered Americans will never get better, not in my lifetime. We might as well omit the oath of public office that requires those elected to public offices like sheriffs and the governor to swear to protect and serve. We almost have done this; so what is left?
Do you realize how wrong this is? You are moving a population of American citizens, who are due the same privileges as all others because they have served their penalty, to bridges and snake filled encampments. From there you are moving them to long-term civil commitment and for some, to castration or death row, all because we have defined them by their status on the registry – a poorly constructed over-populated registry which includes teenage selfies, nudity in the woods or a beach, streaking, and possession of an illegal picture. The only restriction left may eventually be to prohibit those Americans from the state of Florida, if that is possible. The template used to write this ordnance tells it all, and if left unchallenged, will continue to be used to justify really bad governance.
Florida Action Committee has a legislative section. It seems really important to me that someone meet with this city and determine the basis for this narrative. Then I think we need a writing campaign to elected officials demanding a review of the policies concerning registered citizens in the state. We need to know who and why, before it can be debunked at whatever level it has reached. Would it be feasible for someone from FAC to get more information about this abhorrent and inaccurate model, determine its origin, the basis for its evidence, and the breadth of its distribution in state government?
I had a search warrant written to justify a search of my home. It was about nine template pages of stereotype information, only one paragraph was factual and applied in my case. The template search warrant made me sound worse than any horror movie, because it needed to convince a judge beyond a doubt, that a search was necessary. No one took the time to make the template even close to accurate.
I am shocked in reading this ordnance, as it is pages of crap-information that sounds as bad as my search warrant, and just as inaccurate. Tearing it apart in its false narrative might be worthwhile but would be a huge effort in research. I suspect no such research was done when this ordnance was written, but it should have been. I suspect this ordinance passed for the same reason my search warrant was authorized, simply because it was written for shock and not for fact.
Is this in reference to Paragraph 2(a) (“Findings”)?